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We doomed to disappearance all those branches of industry which formerly used to prosper in the villages; we condemned in industry all that was not a big factory.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin argues that the industrial revolution led to the decline of village industries and smaller-scale production.
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