There is no reason why Britain should always be the great cotton manufactory of the world, when raw cotton has to be imported into this country as elsewhere.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “There is no reason why Britain should always be the great cotton manufactory of the world, when raw cotton has to be…”
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Kropotkin critiques Britain's reliance on imported cotton for its manufacturing industry.
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