erin quoted Why Anarchists Don't Vote by Andrew Zonneveld
That is why, as Spencer has already remarked, parliaments are generally so badly composed. The members of parliament, he says in his Introduction, are always inferior to the average people in the country, not only in terms of morality but also in terms of intelligence. An intelligent people always seems to demean itself in its choice of representatives, and betrays itself by choosing nobody better than the boobies who are supposed to act on its behalf.
— Why Anarchists Don't Vote by Andrew Zonneveld, Nani Ferreira-Mathews, Mikhail Bakunin (Page 48)
As I slog through Kropotkin, the longest segment of this book, I came across this little part, where Kropotkin uses the word "boobies." And since I am 12 years old at heart, I had to post about it on the internet.