But the question arises, Why should not the cottons, the woollen cloth, and the silks, now woven by hand in the villages, be woven by machinery in the same villages, without ceasing to remain connected with work in the fields?
Kropotkin questions why traditional handwoven goods cannot also be produced by machines in rural areas.
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