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Mutual Aid (Hardcover)
Peter Kropotkin, Victor Robinson
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R669
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Oscar Wilde deemed his life "perfect," and described him as a man
with "a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out
of Russia." He is PETER ALEXEYEVICH KROPOTKIN (1842-1921),
communist advocate and "anarchist prince." Mutual Aid: A Factor of
Evolution, first published in 1902, is his best known book. Written
as a series of essays for a British literary journal, this
intriguing work filters concepts of evolution through Kropotkin's
appreciation for altruism and anarchy, positing cooperation not
merely as a beneficial political concept but as an approach that
has been-and will continue to be-vital to the long-term survival of
humanity. Kropotkin explores "mutual aid" among "animals,"
"savages," "barbarians," and in the medieval and modern world, and
also discusses nesting associations, checks to overmultiplication,
adaptations to avoid competition, the origin of the family, the
origin of the guilds, and other related issues. Anyone interested
in the science of evolution and its influence on the shape of human
societies will find this a fascinated read.
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's famous critique of
capitalism, wherein he excoriates that system in favor of
anarcho-communism; a form of government he believed could ensure
fairness for all. Kropotkin had an alternate vision of the way
society, work, and population should be organized - in The Conquest
of Bread, he interweaves his plans for a social revolution with
critiques of the prevailing orthodoxy. We receive outlines of how
his propositions will eliminate poverty and scarcity - conditions
Kropotkin believed were artificially enforced in order to maintain
control upon the working populace. As a philosopher and scientist,
Peter Kropotkin abhorred the manner in which abject poverty
characterized industrialized society. He also held a great
resentment for centralized authority of government and the owners
of capital, which he felt acted in concert to undermine the
majority of humanity.
Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was the most outstanding
anarchist thinker of his time. His writings, which combine
revolutionary fervor with intellectual rigor, were influential far
beyond the bounds of the anarchist movement. No mere propagandist,
Kropotkin aimed to provide anarchism with a scientific base through
research of dominant tendencies in society. Fields, Factories and
Workshops (1899) is a meticulously researched and brilliantly
argued outline for redirecting agricultural and industrial
production In a world of shrinking resources and increasing human
needs. More prophetic than utopian, this volume remains remarkably
pertinent to economic conditions at the end of the twentieth
century.
The analysis of trends at work in the United States, Japan, and
China are of amazing predictive power. Kropotkin's farsighted
vision of future industrial planning is today being fulfilled on a
wide scale in regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Equally
prophetic is his critique of mass production in which he
anticipates contemporary calls for multifaceted job training and
greater flexibility in the workplace. Fields, Factories and
Workshops constitutes a valuable source of Inspiration toward the
reinvigoration of the moral point of view in the discussion of
economics and social justice. It will be of continuing interest to
historians, economists, sociologists, and labor studies
specialists.
A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the
great anarchist thinker 'Don't compete! - competition is always
injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid
it!' In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation, the
anarchist thinker and natural scientist Peter Kropotkin argued that
it is our innate instinct for mutual aid - rather than mutual
struggle - which enables societies to survive and flourish. From
the earliest days of evolution through to medieval guilds,
indigenous nomads and modern voluntary organisations, Kropotkin's
vision of small-scale, ecologically sustainable, collective
communities challenged the orthodoxies of his age, whether
individualism or Marxism. Mutual Aid offers instead a radical, and
prescient, rewriting of the whole of human history. With an
introduction by David Priestland
The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world's foremost
spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the
beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Conquest of Bread is his
most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist
communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.
Marshall Shatz's introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin's
evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian
aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution, and
the volume also includes a hitherto untranslated chapter from his
classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist, which contains colourful
character-sketches of some of his fellow anarchists, as well as an
article he wrote summarising the history of anarchism, and some of
his views on the Revolution.
'The Conquest of Bread' is Peter Kropotkin's most extensive study
of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equitable
means of satisfying them.
'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs
from the poverty of the poor' Fuelled by anger at injustice and
optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal
society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced
radicals the world over, from nineteenth-century workers to today's
activists. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great
Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of
thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to
stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
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Words Of A Rebel (Paperback)
Peter Kropotkin; Edited by Iain McKay; Preface by Elisee Reclus
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R607
Discovery Miles 6 070
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