Peter Kropotkin

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is a seminal work that explores an alternative vision of society, where resources and opportunities are equitably shared for the benefit of all individuals, not just a select few. In this thought-provoking text, Kropotkin meticulously dissects the flaws within capitalist and state socialist systems, proposing a more humane and just way of organising...

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. 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...

One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin remains an inspirational figure in the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer whose seminal critique of the hypothesis of competition promoted by Social Darwinism helped to revolutionise modern evolutionary theory. An admirer of Darwin, he used his observations of life in Siberia as the basis...

The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 is Peter Kropotkin's most substantial historical work. In it, he presents a people's history of the world-shaking events of the Revolution and shows the key role the working men and women of the towns and countryside played in it. Without the constant pressure of popular organisations and activity, the politicians would never have created a...