The Conquest of Bread

Name: The Conquest of Bread
Author: Peter Kropotkin

by Peter Kropotkin

Anarchist economics on abundance, communal production, and ending scarcity

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Peter Kropotkin

Russian geographer and anarchist theorist whose Mutual Aid challenged Social Darwinism by arguing that cooperation, not competition, is the dominant principle of evolution. The Conquest of Bread outlined an anarchist-communist vision of post-revolutionary society. He was one of the most widely respected anarchist thinkers.

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