Kropotkin P.A. The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution: An Adress delivered in Paris

Translated by Henry Glasse. — London: The New Temple Press, 1890. — 16 p.Comrades! You have often asked yourselves — “Whence comes the wealth of the rich? Is it from their labour?” It would be a mockery to say that it was so. Let us suppose that M. Rothschild has worked all his life: well, you also, every one of you working men have also laboured: then why should the fortune of M. Rothschild be measured by hundreds of millions while your possessions are so small? The reason is simple: you have exerted yourselves to produce by your own labour, while M. Rothschild has devoted himself to accumulating the product of the labour of others — the whole matter lies in that.