And its total amount would be far smaller than the amount of labour which every thousand persons, taken from this or from any other nation, have now to spend in getting their present food, much smaller in quantity and of worse quality.
Kropotkin compares the labor required for rational agriculture to the current labor needed for food production, highlighting its efficiency.
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Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.
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