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Chapter 17: Agriculture.
The chapter with numbers and everything explain how a community of more than 3 million people coud produce bread, meat, fruit and vegetabless for everybody and working the 5 hours per day the book has been telling you.

The chapter remarks advances the workers have made like greenhouses.

Chapter 16: Decentralization of industry.
Specialization only delay progress because when the revolution start the country will have to abandon its specialization (stopping relying on other specialized countries) and do all kinds of things since agriculture to manufacture.

The key is achieve agriculture and manufactures cohabitation in the same place. This will be the conquest of bread.

Chapter 15: The division of labor.
People thought specializing themselves in an activity (as an individual or even as a nation) was the key to made them rich but this only works if you are the only providing that specialized job but as soon other groups appears then things goes south.

Chapter 14: Consumption and production
We need think on how we produce things. First we need to identify the needs and later produce in consequence. Actually we as society do the opposite: first we produce and try to fit our needs to the production. The examples with the so called surplus in grain or cotton that in reality aren't surplus rather than the system taking from the workers the fruits of their work.

Chapter 13: The collectivist wage system
In capitalism people have to give up their work to a capitalist who paid only crumbs and the option they have is specialize themselves (doctor, engineer, etc) to have a better wage. This is a source of poverty to because if there are rich is because there are poor people even in this tiny scale.

The solution is to abolish wage system. In anarchism you won't need it anyway.

Chapter 12: Objections
The main objection of course to anarchist communism is that if people have guaranteed their basic needs then nobody will work and society will collapse. This is a completely personal thought but if your only idea to convince people to work is fear to starve or live on the street then you are an horrible person. People os willing to work when they know they will harvest the fruits of such work.

Chapter 11: Free agreement.
People think without a state nothing would be possible because how would society organize itself? The chapter gives examples of how people without the intervention of the state cooperate to build railroads, sailors union to rescue boats and the red cross. The society doesn't need the state.

Chapter 10: Agreeable work.
In this chapter women's problems are finally addressed after only talk about men. I liked that even in a book written in 18 century is recognized that women are slaved by society and any revolution needs to put this in consideration. Any revolution needs to think in free women from this burden.