The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
Kropotkin highlights the significance of small bicycle workshops in the development of larger industries.
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It is only the distribution which is defective; and if a social revolution took place, nothing more would be required than for everyone to return to his factory or workshop, Society taking possession for itself of the ‘surplus value’ or…
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
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