The Conquest of Bread

'Well-being for all is not a dream.'

In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over, again and again.

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The Conquest of Bread

'Well-being for all is not a dream.'

In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over, again and again.

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The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread

by Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread

by Peter Kropotkin

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'Well-being for all is not a dream.'

In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over, again and again.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141396125
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publication date: 06/25/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 800 KB

About the Author

Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) came from a major aristocratic Russian family but turned his back on it to embrace a life of imprisonment and exile in pursuit of his beliefs. His major works are The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid. His funeral was marked by the last permitted gathering of anarchists in the USSR.

Table of Contents

An Introduction by George Woodcock

Preface by Elisee Reclus To The First French Edition

Preface To The 1907 Edition

Chapter 1: Our Riches

Chapter 2: Well-Being For All

Chapter 3: Anarchist Communism

Chapter 4: Expropriation

Chapter 5: Food

Chapter 6: Dwelling

Chapter 7: Clothing

Chapter 8: Ways and Means

Chapter 9: The Need for Luxury

Chapter 10: Agreeable Work

Chapter 11: Free Agreement

Chapter 12: Objections

Chapter 13: The Collectivist Wages System

Chapter 14: Consumption and Production

Chapter 15: The Division of Labour

Chapter 16: The Decentralization of Industry

Chapter 17: Agriculture
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