Anarchist Communism – Peter Kropotkin
Anarchist Communism – Peter Kropotkin / ISBN 9780241472408 / small 128-page paperback from Penguin’s Great Ideas series
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The humane yet devastating critique of how modern society is organized with the brutal few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many
Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist texts had a fundamental impact on 19th and 20th century radicals of all kinds. These essays from The Conquest of Bread are bravura examples of his optimistic and angry vision of a world in which the just actions of the many can destroy the grip of the few.
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