To return to a state of affairs where corn is grown, and manufactured goods are fabricated, for the use of those very people who grow and produce them--such will be, no doubt, the problem to be solved during the next coming years of European history.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To return to a state of affairs where corn is grown, and manufactured goods are fabricated, for the use of those very…”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin envisions a future where goods are produced for the benefit of those who create them, addressing a fundamental economic issue.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.
The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.
People flocked at night into Trafalgar Square to sleep there in the open air, under the wind and rain, between two newspapers; and one day in February a crowd, after having listened to the speeches of Burns, Hyndman, and Champion, rushed…

