Kropotkin

history is nothing but a struggle between the rulers and the ruled, the oppressors and the oppressed, in which struggle the practical camp always aides with the rulers and the oppressors, while the unpractical camp sides with the oppressed; and they will see that the struggle always ends in a final defeat of the practical camp after much bloodshed and suffering, due to what they call their "practical good sense." https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1888/are-we-good-enough.html