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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The industrial nations are bound to revert to agriculture, they are compelled to find out the best means of combining it…

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The industrial nations are bound to revert to agriculture, they are compelled to find out the best means of combining it with industry, and they must do so without loss of time.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin argues that industrial nations must urgently integrate agriculture with industry.

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