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The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it - a study of the needs of humanity, and of the economic means to satisfy them.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread is probably the best and easiest to read book yet written on how a libertarian and communist society could function. My recommendation would be to forget Marx and Engels, if you'd ever considered reading them, and read this book instead.
Even though I don't agree with all that Kropotkin said, his is a very interesting and thought provoking work. It wasn't written for academics and intellectuals, but for the common working men and women of the late 19th century. As such, it is one of the easiest political books to read, and if you don't learn something from it, or feel enriched by the experience, then I'd be very surprised.
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An anti-democracy, anti-capitalism and anti-marxist manifesto, advocating a view of socio-economic management based on free association amongst people in pursuit of the satisfaction of the material needs of society. Kropotkin believes people can do it by themselves, if they freely associate, in a way that is both enriching and reduces the working day.
A refreshing and interesting read, which shows a preference for and a faith in the ability of human beings for effective and efficient self-organisation in pursuit of human welfare. I would hazard to say that this book is similar in spirit to Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful".Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People MatteredGod and the State
A refreshing and interesting read, which shows a preference for and a faith in the ability of human beings for effective and efficient self-organisation in pursuit of human welfare. I would hazard to say that this book is similar in spirit to Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful".Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People MatteredGod and the State
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Karl Marx. Highpoint of communist philosophy? Wrong. Kropotkin takes communism to its logical conclusion far more concisely and with a lucidity that Marx could only allude to. Kropotkin guides us through the implausibility of private property and the state, highlighting the inherent inadequacies and misery they inevitably cause. Having used Mutual Aid and the unfinished Ethics to show the irrefutability of mans social nature, the Conquest of Bread enables Kropotkin to show us what, once having read it, seems so glaringly obvious- that political society works against man and not for him.
Its a radical conclusion reached through a series of logical statements and progressions, containing so much truth that it is almost impossible to argue against him, untill you are left with no other option but to agree with him.
Where he differs the most in his philosophy from Marx is with the organisation of society once the existing one has collapsed. Marx offered the communist party, the party of the workers which would take the place of capitalists and the bourgeois, who would take control of society, safeguarding the principles of Communism before somehow melting away. Or not. Kropotkin however, sees all authority as corrupting and so suggests that with the corrupting influence completely irradicated, man would be able to flourish. In other words Anarchist Communism. Leave man to work together and all will be well. Whether this is a naieve and even romantic view of human nature is up to the individual to decide. The conquest of Bread is however, a beautiful work of political philosophy and is one that deserves to be read by those that share his beliefs and those that dismiss his conclusions alike.
Its a radical conclusion reached through a series of logical statements and progressions, containing so much truth that it is almost impossible to argue against him, untill you are left with no other option but to agree with him.
Where he differs the most in his philosophy from Marx is with the organisation of society once the existing one has collapsed. Marx offered the communist party, the party of the workers which would take the place of capitalists and the bourgeois, who would take control of society, safeguarding the principles of Communism before somehow melting away. Or not. Kropotkin however, sees all authority as corrupting and so suggests that with the corrupting influence completely irradicated, man would be able to flourish. In other words Anarchist Communism. Leave man to work together and all will be well. Whether this is a naieve and even romantic view of human nature is up to the individual to decide. The conquest of Bread is however, a beautiful work of political philosophy and is one that deserves to be read by those that share his beliefs and those that dismiss his conclusions alike.
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