Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Couverture rigide

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814745555 ISBN 13 : 9780814745557

Editeur : New York University Press, 1972

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Peter Kropotkin (1842 –1921) was a zoologist, an evolutionary theorist, geographer and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. Because of his title of prince, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince". Some contemporaries saw him as leading a near perfect life, including Oscar Wilde, who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. Kropotkin's inspiration has reached into the 20th and 21st centuries as a vision of a new society based on the anarchist principles of anti-statism and anti-authoritarianism, the communist principles of the publicly owned means of production and his zoological theories on the mutual aid between all species and individuals.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0814745555
• ISBN 13: 9780814745557
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277