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| Title | : | The Conquest of Bread |
| Author | : | Pyotr Kropotkin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2006 by AK Press (first published 1892) |
| Categories | : | Politics. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Economics. History |
Pyotr Kropotkin
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 4.14 | 3863 Users | 313 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | La Conquête du Pain |
| ISBN: | 1904859100 (ISBN13: 9781904859109) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Epithetical Books The Conquest of Bread
Ratings: 4.14 From 3863 Users | 313 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books The Conquest of Bread
The book is not perfect but the articulation of the possible is so refreshing, and so easily conveyed and understood that it was impossible for me to not get swept up into the hopes of transforming our societies into the ones that Kropotkin put forward in this brilliant little book. How infuriating that we continue to mismanage our societies in such cruel and unjust ways when it is so evident that if we distributed resources and labour differently, such a better world for all would be had.Hey you, what if I told you that you, and your family, and everyone you know, and indeed all of your countrymen, could have all their bodily necessities assured, and even some comforts perhaps, and free time to pursue your interests? All you have to do is till the fields for like... 20 hours a week? 20 hours of hard but dignified labor? What do you say? FUCK NO! Are you kidding? I went to college. Im not driving a fucking combine across the plains of Iowa. Nah Im kidding. His theories work much
[Read online at http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_... ]Treads some of the same ground as "Fields, Factories and Workshops", definitely worth a read. Again, Kropotkin impresses me with his prescience about so many of the issues that we grapple with today. What follows below is less of a review than it is a collection of quotations:As a frequent teacher of thermodynamics, I appreciated (and will attest to) his statement that the field was first really "invented" by the engineers, and only
Ah yes, The Conquest of Bread. The Bread Book. Every anarchist knows it, every anarchist has read it (supposedly - I'll get into that in a second). Leftist Youtube is even named after it - Breadtube. A small book that is a shining argument against both the horrible, currently world-destroying mode of production that is capitalism and the nightmare that was the endless 20th century Stalinist regimes... or is it?See, anarchists today, they don't actually talk about production. They talk about
This was an interesting book that I picked up wanting to learn more about Kropotkin himself. The approach that he represents might be best described as anarcho-communist, but this is not entirely pie in the sky. He sets out reasonable assumptions and describes how to fulfill them. It does require a paradigm shift (ie look at need rather than production and a we're all in this together from the perspective of a lifeboat viz. you don't ask for the qualifications of the fellow boaters, you just
Hey Everyone, Guiscard Hector Comtois reporting in from the 1893 French countryside. I have to admit I had a hard time reading this since I actually can't read at all. The annoying son of the guy who owns the mill read this to me as I trod behind my donkey and plow--I understand he's going to law school, unlike my kids, who currently work 16 hour days making buttons at his dad's factory. In any case, lots of good ideas in this one. Even though all my clothes have holes in them, I would like to
If anyone here is interested on political philosophies i would highly recommend Peter Kroptokin's book " The conquest of Bread ". Most of us have heard the term anarchy but little do we know of its history. Anarchism is actually a political philosophy, but we associate the word with lawlessness, disorder and absolute mayhem. The first philosopher to come out as an Anarchist is Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. i haven't got the chance to read his works yet but i got a solid view of anarchist philosophy
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