Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “And we may therefore hold that it is not yet proved at all that it is cheaper to live on imported food than to grow it…”

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…

Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.

But the appearance of the cotton industry in a country, or, in fact, of any textile industry, unavoidably becomes the starting-point for the growth of a series of other industries; chemical and mechanical works, metallurgy and mining feel…

Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is unavoidable.