The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

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There is not one single principle of Political Economy that does not change its aspect if you look at it from our point of view.

Take, for instance, overproduction, a word which every day reechoes in our ears. Is there a single economist, academician, or candidate for academical honours, who has not supported arguments, proving that economic crises are due to overproduction -- that at a given moment more cotton, more cloth, more watches are produced than are needed! Have we not, all of us, thundered against the rapacity of the capitalists who are obstinately bent on producing more than can possibly be consumed!

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