The state management of the land and of the leading industries, and even of the consumption of riches, would be the next step in a more or less distant future.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The state management of the land and of the leading industries, and even of the consumption of riches, would be the next…”
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Kropotkin predicts a future where state management of land and industries becomes prevalent.
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The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
Every farmer is more or less of a gardener, and he gives free scope to his inventive powers for devising some cheap type of greenhouses.
The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
And the division and subdivision--the permanent subdivision--of functions has been pushed so far as to divide humanity into castes which are almost as firmly established as those of old India.

