There is no reason why the factory, with its motive force and machinery, should not belong to the community, as is already the case for motive power in the above-mentioned workshops and small factories in the French portion of the Jura hills.
Kropotkin suggests that factories should be community-owned rather than privately controlled.
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But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…
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.
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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