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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Why, in a rationally organised society, ought London to remain a great centre for the jam and preserving trade, and…”

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Why, in a rationally organised society, ought London to remain a great centre for the jam and preserving trade, and manufacture umbrellas for nearly the whole of the United Kingdom?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He questions the logic of centralized production in major cities for certain goods.

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