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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “On the contrary, as soon as high taxation or the impoverishment during a crisis has compelled the domestic worker to…”

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On the contrary, as soon as high taxation or the impoverishment during a crisis has compelled the domestic worker to abandon his last plot of land to the usurer, misery creeps into his house.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin warns that high taxation and crises can lead domestic workers to lose their land, resulting in poverty.

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