Each nation becomes in its turn a manufacturing nation; and the time is not far off when each nation of Europe, as well as the United States, and even the most backward nations of Asia and America, will themselves manufacture nearly everything they are in need of.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Each nation becomes in its turn a manufacturing nation; and the time is not far off when each nation of Europe, as well…”
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Kropotkin predicts that all nations will eventually become self-sufficient in manufacturing their needs.
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Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.
And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.
And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

