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Kropotkin, who was a gentleman geographer
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and once toasted by the King of England,
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and in the end was horrified by the Bolshevik Revolution,
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he was among those who came up with the term
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"Propaganda by the deed";
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that is, the belief that the masses were potentially revolutionary,
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and it took a single spark, a single assassination, a single bomb to start revolution rolling.
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Anarchists assassinated,
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depending on how you count it,
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five, or six, or seven heads of state
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in the late decades of the nineteenth century,
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including President McKinley of the United States, who was shot or stabbed, I can't remember which,