For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better tools than the spade; under such conditions we inevitably should fail.
Kropotkin critiques the idea of dividing land into small plots for individual cultivation, arguing it would lead to failure.
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