Collected works of Peter Kropotkin. illustrated: An Appeal to the Young. Law and Authority. The Conquest of Bread. Mutual aid

by Pyotr Kropotkin

Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a distinguished thinker and scientist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A descendant of an ancient princely line and a graduate from Imperial Russia's Page Corps, Kropotkin became a famous proponent and theorist of anarchism. This edition collects Peter Kropotkin's notable works and articles. Throughout these tests, Kropotkin lays out, in simple, elegant terms, the basic principles of anarchy and his criticism of modern society. The author applies the ideas of "anarchy" not only to politics but also as a methodological and ethical key to understand the essence of social existence. AN APPEAL TO THE YOUNG LAW AND AUTHORITY THE CONQUEST OF BREAD MUTUAL AID

618 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2021

About the author

Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin, prince, Russian anarchist, and political philosopher, greatly influenced movements throughout the world and maintained that cooperation, not competition, the means, bettered the human condition.

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин, other spelling: Pëtr Kropotkin, Pierre Kropotkine), who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ, which seems coming." 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 to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition .

Reviews

[Nicholas Ackerman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite being a DNF, A forceful set of polemics. The concept of anarchism is intriguingly relayed, with a window on Russian society mere decades removed from serfdom. It helps to explain some of the profoundly negative interpretations of capitalism from Russian and Eastern European sources. It is hard to see legal structures as negatively slaved to suppressive elites now as might have been the case in Kropotkin’s time, but you can still see echoes of that now.

How to review statements of political philosophy that have been undermined by the attempts of the last century-plus? From a historic view, it’s interesting, with an overly optimistic opinion on the naturalness of the communism expanded to a nation. From an objective view, economies and societies have changed so drastically that it is very hard to see how Kropotkin can have an influence anywhere on the political spectrum