A highly concentrated industry, and a high productivity, as well as a considerable export trade, which all testify to a high industrial development of the country, thus go hand in hand with a high development of the domestic trades and small industries altogether.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “A highly concentrated industry, and a high productivity, as well as a considerable export trade, which all testify to a…”
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Kropotkin connects high industrial development with a thriving domestic trade and small industries in a country.
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