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There is no reason why Britain should always be the great cotton manufactory of the world, when raw cotton has to be imported into this country as elsewhere.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin critiques Britain's reliance on imported cotton for its manufacturing industry.
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