Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But the present industrial system, based upon a permanent specialisation of functions, already bears in itself the germs…”

The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.

Any soil, of any desired composition, can be made by machinery.

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.

And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.