“it was an evolutionary emphasis on cooperation instead of competition in the Darwinian sense that made for the success of species, including the human”
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Peter Kropotkin
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
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culture · Russian anarchist (1842–1921) · geographer · writer · explorer · philosopher · autobiographer · journalist · economist · anarchist · zoologist · politician · also Peter Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Pyotr Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin, P. Kropotkin, P. A. Kropotkin
Born 27 November 1842 · Died 8 February 1921 · Q5752
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2014· 1 entry
RBTH: Peter Kropotkin: The father of Russian Anarchism
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2012· 1 entry
Libcom: The conquest of bread - Peter Kropotkin - audiobook
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2005· 1 entry
Libcom: The conquest of bread - Peter Kropotkin
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1921· 2 entries
Died 1921-02-08.
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“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. He is a madman, an immolator, wishful of burning, and slaughter, and sacrificing.”
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1920· 1 entry
Describing the desperate conditions that he believed to be the result of bureaucratic organization, and urging Lenin to allow for local and decentralized institutions
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1918· 1 entry
Which was personally approved by Vladimir Lenin, head of the Soviet government
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1917· 1 entry
But he was disappointed by the Bolshevik state
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1912· 1 entry
Had celebratory gatherings in London and Paris
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1902· 1 entry
Kropotkin published his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which gave an alternative view of animal and human survival
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1901· 1 entry
At the invitation of the Lowell Institute to give lectures on Russian literature that were later published
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1888· 1 entry
“The Coming of the Reign of Plenty”
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1879· 1 entry
Started Le Révolté, a revolutionary fortnightly, in Geneva that published his personal articulation of anarchist communism, the idea of distributing work product communally based on need rather than by work
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1862· 1 entry
Chose the Amur Cossacks in east Siberia, an undesirable post that would let him study the technical mathematics of artillery, travel, live in nature, and achieve financial independence from his father
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1861· 1 entry
And was thrust into court life, serving as the emperor's personal Page de Chambre
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-11-27.
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