Having lived for two months in fear that the workers would make an assault upon their property rights, the rich men of France took upon the workers just the same revenge as if they had made the assault in reality.
Kropotkin describes the harsh revenge taken by the wealthy against workers after the Commune's defeat.
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At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
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.
To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
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