The Conquest of Bread
The fourth in AK Press’ Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying them. A combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision, this is a step-by-step guide to social revolution: the concrete means of achieving it, and the world that humanity’s “constructive genius” is capable of creating. Includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin’s ideas.

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The Conquest of Bread
The fourth in AK Press’ Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying them. A combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision, this is a step-by-step guide to social revolution: the concrete means of achieving it, and the world that humanity’s “constructive genius” is capable of creating. Includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin’s ideas.

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The fourth in AK Press’ Working Classics series, The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational and equi-table means of satisfying them. A combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching utopian vision, this is a step-by-step guide to social revolution: the concrete means of achieving it, and the world that humanity’s “constructive genius” is capable of creating. Includes a new introduction that historically situates and discusses the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin’s ideas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141396118
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/08/2015
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Peter Kropotkin (1842 -1921) was a Russian prince who became one of anarchism's most famous thinkers. His classic works include, Fields, Factories and Workshops; Memoirs of a Revolutionist; and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.

Table of Contents

I Our Riches
II Well-Being for All
III Anarchist Communism
IV Expropriation
V Food
VI Dwelling
VII Clothing
VIII Ways and Means
IX The Need for Luxury
X Agreeable Work
XI Free Agreement
XII Oblections
XIII The Collectivist Wages System
XIV Consumption and Production
XV The Division of Lsabour
XVI The Decentralization of Industry
XVII Agriculture
Notes
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