The great industry is thus very far from having absorbed the small one.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The great industry is thus very far from having absorbed the small one.”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin emphasizes the coexistence of large and small industries in the economic landscape.
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Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.
But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.
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