The fourth in AK Press Working Classics series, "The Conquest of Bread" is Peter Kropotkin s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying them. A combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision, this is a step-by-step guide to social revolution: the concrete means of achieving it, and the world that humanity s constructive genius is capable of creating. Includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin s ideas."
The fourth in AK Press Working Classics series, "The Conquest of Bread" is Peter Kropotkin s most extensive study of human needs and his outline o...
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity, as symbol for richness and in spite of being in a time of abundance thanks to technology, while promoting privilege. He 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. He also talks about details of revolution and expropriation in...
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes the...
