If Kropotkin and Lenin can have a meeting of minds, so can we with the right circumstances

But do note that nothing constructive came from those meetings, Kropotkin had misguided notion of the revolution and keep his own stance which was plainly unrealistic in the conditions. Lenin blamed his advanced age for that and was most likely correct.

Also don’t forget that Lenin was not the only one having a meeting of minds with Kropotkin, for example this gentelman here is Pavel Milyukov: