The British nation does not work on her soil; she is prevented from doing so; and the would-be economists complain that the soil will not nourish its inhabitants!
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The British nation does not work on her soil; she is prevented from doing so; and the would-be economists complain that…”
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Kropotkin critiques the British economy for not utilizing its agricultural land effectively, leading to food shortages.
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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.
Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
But force is reciprocal; and if the god of war always sides with the strongest battalions, those battalions are strongest which fight for new rights against outgrown privileges.
Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.

