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Kropotkin, Peter

 
9781438523767: The Conquest of Bread

Synopsis

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian prince known for his views an anarchist communism. He advocated for a communist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince and his prominence as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known as "the Anarchist Prince". He is the author of "Fields, Factories, and Workshops" and "The Memoirs of a Revolutionist." Kropotkin gave up his life of nobility. He became the intellectual leader of Anarchist-Communism. The introduction states, "The Conquest of Bread is a revolutionary idyl, a beautiful outline sketch of a future society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. It is, in Kropotkin's own words, "a study of the needs of humanity, and of the economic means to satisfy them. It meets all the difficulties of the social inquirer who says: The Anarchist ideal is alluring, but how could you work it out?"

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Ti OuFOR eiOLOCICAL RESEARCH PREFACE One of the current objections to Communism, and Socialism altogether, is that the idea is so old, and yet it could never be realized. Schemes of ideal States haunted the thinkers of Ancient Greece; later on, the early Christians joined in communist groups; centuries later, large communist brotherhoods came into existence during the Reform movement. Then, the same ideals were revived during the great English and French Revolutions; and finally, quite lately, in 1848, a revolution, inspired to a great extent with Socialist ideals, took place in France. And yet, you see, we are told, how far away is still the realization of your schemes. Don tyou think that there is some fundamental error in your understanding of human nature and its needs? At first sight this objection seems very serious. However, the moment we consider human history more attentively, it loses its strength.
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