But times will come when Indian workers will restrain the cupidity of the capitalists, and the manufacturers of Bombay will be none the worse for that in their competition with the British manufactures.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But times will come when Indian workers will restrain the cupidity of the capitalists, and the manufacturers of Bombay…”
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Kropotkin expresses hope that Indian workers will eventually challenge capitalist greed.
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