Altogether, it may be taken as one of the fundamental facts of the economical life of Europe that the defeat of a number of small trades, artisan work and domestic industries, came through their being incapable of organising the sale of their produce--not from the production itself.
Kropotkin argues that the failure of small trades is due to their inability to organize sales rather than production issues.
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