Under the present conditions of division into capitalists and labourers, into property-holders and masses living on uncertain wages, the spreading of industries over new fields is accompanied by the very same horrible facts of pitiless oppression, massacre of children, pauperism, and insecurity of life.
Kropotkin highlights the negative consequences of capitalism, including oppression and insecurity, in the context of industrial expansion.
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And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
They smile when we boast about the rotation system, having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during…
For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better…
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