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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