Peter Kropotkin
Influential Russian anarchist-communist, crucial in the crystallisation of socialist ideas within the international anarchist movement.
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism
This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized by the Russian Academy of Science on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The conference was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dimitrov on December 8 - 14, 1992. It was the first such conference to be held on Russian soil since the Revolution in 1917.
by Harry Cleaver
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism Options
Dumartheray, Francois, 1842-1931
A short biography of possibly the founder of anarchist communism, Francois Dumartheray of France.
Francois Dumartheray was born at Collonges, Haute-Savoie in the Savoy on 27th January 1842.
A member of a utopian Icarian group in Lyons, he was one of those who fled to Geneva after the events of 1871.
He became a member of the L’Avenir group, along with Antoine Perrare, composed mostly of workers who had their roots in the Cabetian strand of communism in Lyons.
Kropotkin was no crackpot - Stephen Jay Gould
Well-known evolutionary biologist/science historian Stephen Jay Gould defends Kropotkin's famous thesis that co-operation and mutual aid are factors of evolution at least as important as competition.
A Review of Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread"
THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
Gary Hayter
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin's book on mutual aid and co-operation as a factor in evolution. Written in 1902.
Text taken from the Anarchy Archives
Brain Work and Manual Work
In olden times, men of science, and especially those who have done most to forward the growth of natural philosophy, did not despise manual work and handicraft. Galileo made his telescopes with his own hands. Newton learned in his boyhood the art of managing tools; be exercised his young mind in contriving most ingenious machines, and when he began his researches in optics he was able himself to grind the lenses for his instruments and himself to make the well known telescope which, for its time, was a fine piece of workmanship.
An Appeal to the Young
Peter Kropotkin's 1880 anarchist appeal to young people, aimed at those just finishing education or apprenticeships and about to enter a profession
"Anarchism", from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910
The entry on "Anarchism" that Peter Kropotkin wrote for The Encyclopaedia Britannica edition of 1910
War!
War!
THE spectacle presented at this moment by Europe is deplorable enough but withal particularly instructive. On the one hand, diplomatists and courtiers hurrying hither and thither with the increased activity which displays itself whenever the air of our old continent begins to smell of powder. Alliances are being made and unmade, with much chaffering over the amount of human cattle that shall form the price of the bargain. "So many million head on condition of your house supporting ours; so many acres to feed them, such and such seaports for the export of their wool." Each plotting to overreach his rivals in the market. That is what in political jargon is known as diplomacy.
The State: Its Historic Role - Peter Kropotkin
Famous Russian anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin's classic work on the state, its revolution and its function in society.
