About Peter Kropotkin
Russian geographer and anarchist theorist (1842–1921), born Prince Kropotkin, who renounced his aristocratic title after experiencing Siberia and the Paris Commune. His scientific work on cooperation in nature formed the empirical backbone of anarchist-communist theory. Exiled from Russia, he spent decades in Western Europe and returned to Russia after 1917 — where he criticised Bolshevik centralisation until his death.
Books by Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Kropotkin's scientific counter to social Darwinism: he argues, using natural history and ethnographic evidence, that mutual cooperation — not ruthless competition — is the dominant mechanism of survival and social devel…
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The most readable and constructive statement of anarcho-communism. Kropotkin moves past mere critique to describe how a society without state or capital might actually feed, house, and provision everyone — through volun…
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