The twelve shillings a week of the British agricultural labourer represents the same amount of wheat in Britain as the six shillings a week of the Russian labourer represents in Russia.
Kropotkin compares the wages of British and Russian agricultural laborers in terms of their purchasing power for wheat, illustrating economic equivalence.
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