" As long as worthless paper-money - whether called assignats or labour notes - is offered to the peasant-producer it will always be the same. The country will withhold its produce, and the towns will suffer want, even if the recalcitrant peasants are guillotined as before.

We must offer to the peasant in exchange for his toil not worthless paper-money, but the manufactured articles of which he stands in immediate need. "

― Pyotr Kropotkin , The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings