Note 1365 — Chapter IV · : THE ANARCHISTS

Kropotkin, quoted by Eltzbacher, p. 236. “Revolution, once it becomes socialistic, will cease to be sanguinary and cruel. The people are not cruel. It is the privileged classes that are cruel. People are ordinarily kind and humane, and will suffer long rather than cause others any suffering.” (Bakunin, Œuvres, vol. iii, pp. 184-185.) The same idea runs through Sorel’s Réflexions sur la Violence.