revolution was expressed by the anarchist Prince Kropotkin in 1908: What we learn to-day from the study of the Great Revolution,... is that it was the source and origin of all the present communist, anarchist, and socialist present communist, anarchist, and socialist conceptions.... up till now, modern socialism has added absolutely nothing to the ideas that were circulating among the French people between 1789 and 1794, and which it was tried to put into practice in the year II. of the Republic. Modern socialism has only systematized those ideas and found arguments in their favor, .. . | anarchist, socialist present Indeed, the French Revolution was a source for communist, anarchist, and socialist conceptions; conceptions that, when carried to conclusion, resulted in the necessity of installing drainage systems to carry away the torrents of blood that flowed from French guillotines. These same "conceptions" applied during the twentieth century have resulted in the murder of well over one hundred million human beings. There is much to learn from the Great Revolution. Commenting on the nm ame. . RY. ord and socialist If, then, we would discover the truth about these great revolutionary outbreaks, we must dig down far below the surface, we must trace the connection between the mine and the explosion, between the actions of the people and the causes that provoked them? 35 The French Revolution That the French Revolution was a model for Socialist anarchist, Revolution, the British historian Nesta Webster wrote: