Basic Kropotkin (A6 pocketbook)

First published as an Anarchist Federation pamphlet, this is Brian Morris’s compact guide to Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist thought one of the nineteenth century’s most serious scientific and political minds. Morris works through the key pillars of Kropotkin’s vision: his conviction that cooperation, not competition, is the true engine of social life; his rejection of capitalism and the states and his case for a communism built from below through free agreement. Above all, he shows that Kropotkin’s anarchism was an affirmative philosophy- not merely a politics of refusal, but a coherent vision of human society without coercion. Authoritative and timely, Basic Kropotkin includes a foreword by Ruth Kinna -professor of political theory and author of The Government of No One, the acclaimed popular history of anarchism who places these ideas in sharp contemporary context.