Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State – Peter Kropotkin by Working Class History | Shop

Fulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | ShopThis collection contextualises and contemporises three of the most influential essays of the important geographer and anarchist theorist, Peter Kropotkin. Description: Amid the clashes, complexities, and political personalities of world politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Peter Kropotkin stands out. Born a prince in Tsarist Russia and sent to Siberia to learn his militaristic, aristocratic trade, he instead renounced his titles and took up the “beautiful idea” of anarchism. Across a continent he would become known as a passionate advocate of a world without borders, without kings and bosses. From a Russian cell to France, to London and Brighton, he used his extraordinary mind to dissect the birth of State power and then present a different vision, one in which the human impulse to liberty can be found throughout history, undying even in times of defeat. In the three essays presented here, Kropotkin attem