We saw that a new form of society is germinating in the civilized nations, and must take the place of the old one: a society of equals, who will not be compelled to sell their hands and brains to those who choose to employ them in a haphazard way, but who will be able to apply their knowledge and capacities to production, in an organism so constructed as to combine all the eforts for procuring the greatest sum possible of well-being for all, while full, free scope will be lef for every individual initiative. Tis society will be composed of a multitude of associations, federated for all the purposes which require federation: trade federations for production of all sorts, agricultural, dwellings, gas works, supplies of food, sanitary arrangements, etc.; federations of communes among themselves, and federations of communes with trade organizations; and finally, wider groups covering all the country, or several countries, composed of men who collaborate for the satisfaction of such economic, intellectual, artistic, and moral needs as are not limited to a given territory.

Kropotkin, Peter: Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

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