Demanding the impossible?: Human nature and politics in nineteenth-century social anarchism
David Morland's text examining the relationship between anarchism's notion of human nature and its vision of a future stateless society by way of three 19th-century social anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin.
It demonstrates that social anarchism operates a conception of human nature that assumes the existence of both egoism and sociability, and therefore provides a realistic assessment of human nature.
Some Reminiscences of Kropotkin - Alexander Berkman
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 28 2013 22:15
It was about 1890, when the anarchist movement was still in its infancy in America. We were just a handful then, young men and women fired by the enthusiams of a sublime ideal, and passionately spreading the new faith among the population of the New York Ghetto. We held our gatherings in an obscure hall in Orchard Street, but we regarded our efforts as highly successful. Every week greater numbers attended our meetings, much interest was manifested in the revolutionary teachings, and vital questions were discussed late into the night, with deep conviction and youthful vision.
To most of us it seemed that capitalism had almost reached the limits of its fiendish possibilities, and that the Social Revolution was not far off. But there were many difficult questions and knotty problems involved in the growing movement, which we ourselves could not solve satisfactorily.
Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral
Submitted by wojtek on Jan 22 2013 02:44
Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral which took place from 10th to 13th February, 1921. It was documented by 'Section of social chronicles of all-Russian cinema and photo publishing'.
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; 9th December, 1842 – 8th February, 1921).
Revolutionary pamphlets - Peter Kropotkin
A selection of PDF pamphlets by Russian anarchist former Prince, Peter Kropotkin.
Kropotkin grew up in the midst of the struggle between the peasants and workers and the government. He was born a prince of the old nobility of Moscow, was trained as a page in the Emperor's court, and at twenty became an officer in the army. The discovery that he was engaged in revolutionary activities in St.
Spanish political prisoners - Syndicalist Workers Federation
Submitted by wojtek on Aug 15 2012 13:30
A pamphlet published by the Syndicalist Workers' Federation on the imprisonment of Spanish anarchists by the Franco regime (1970).
Mutual aid: a factor of evolution - Peter Kropotkin - audiobook
Mutual aid: a factor of evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. Recorded as an audiobook by LibriVox.
It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had originally been published in 1890-96 as a series of essays in the British monthly literary magazine, Nineteenth Century.
The conquest of bread - Peter Kropotkin - audiobook
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they create poverty and scarcity while promoting privilege. Recorded as an audiobook by LibriVox.
Kropotkin goes on to propose a more decentralised economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organisation already exist, both in evolution and in human society.
Wars and Capitalism
Russian anarchist, Peter Kropotkin writes of the part capitalism and industry plays in starting wars between two governments.
The great French revolution, 1789-1793 - Peter Kropotkin
Submitted by Steven. on Apr 29 2012 15:27
Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's extensive history and analysis of the French Revolution of 1789.
Revolutionary government - Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin, the founding father of collectivist anarchism, on why "revolutionary government" is a contradiction in terms.
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