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philosophybits · 4 months
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Under any circumstances, sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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radiofreederry · 3 months
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Happy birthday, Peter Kropotkin! (December 9, 1842)
One of the most influential and respected anarchist theorists of all time, Peter Kropotkin was born into an aristocratic Russian family, and was chosen to attend the Tsar's Page Corps, but he showed a progressive streak from a young age that would only grow as he aged. Inspired by the Paris Commune, Kropotkin fell in with left-wing revolutionary politics as he toured Europe. He began to write on anarchism, and faced prison and persecution for his activism. He ultimately endured exile from Russia, spending many years in London until, in 1917, he returned in the midst of the Russian Revolution. He remained politically active and critical of many aspects of the new Bolshevik government until his death in 1921.
"All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as 'The Right to work,' or 'To each the whole result of his labour.' What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!"
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anarchywoofwoof · 2 months
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hobohobgoblim · 4 months
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bacchanal5 · 5 months
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anarchistin · 11 days
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We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those the barbarous times.
But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.
— Peter Kropotkin
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“To remain the servant of the written law is to place yourself every day in opposition to the law of conscience, and to make a bargain on the wrong side”
 - Peter Kropotkin
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ptrcbtmn · 3 months
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eelhound · 8 months
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"Animal cooperation often has nothing to do with survival or reproduction, but is a form of pleasure in itself. 'To take flight in flocks merely for pleasure is quite common among all sorts of birds,' [Kropotkin] writes. [He] multiplies examples of social play: pairs of vultures wheeling about for their own entertainment, hares so keen to box with other species that they occasionally (and unwisely) approach foxes, flocks of birds performing military-style maneuvers, bands of squirrels coming together for wrestling and similar games:
We know at the present time that all animals, beginning with the ants, going on to the birds, and ending with the highest mammals, are fond of plays, wrestling, running after each other, trying to capture each other, teasing each other, and so on. And while many plays are, so to speak, a school for the proper behavior of the young in mature life, there are others which, apart from their utilitarian purposes, are, together with dancing and singing, mere manifestations of an excess of forces — 'the joy of life,' and a desire to communicate in some way or another with other individuals of the same or of other species — in short, a manifestation of sociability proper, which is a distinctive feature of all the animal world.
To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence, and with sociable creatures, such pleasures are proportionally magnified when performed in company. From the Russian perspective, this does not need to be explained. It is simply what life is. We don’t have to explain why creatures desire to be alive. Life is an end in itself. And if what being alive actually consists of is having powers — to run, jump, fight, fly through the air — then surely the exercise of such powers as an end in itself does not have to be explained either. It’s just an extension of the same principle.
Friedrich Schiller had already argued in 1795 that it was precisely in play that we find the origins of self-consciousness, and hence freedom, and hence morality. 'Man plays only when he is in the full sense of the word a man,' Schiller wrote in his On the Aesthetic Education of Man, 'and he is only wholly a Man when he is playing.' If so, and if Kropotkin was right, then glimmers of freedom, or even of moral life, begin to appear everywhere around us.
It’s hardly surprising, then, that this aspect of Kropotkin’s argument was ignored by the neo-Darwinists. Unlike 'the problem of altruism,' cooperation for pleasure, as an end in itself, simply could not be recuperated for ideological purposes. In fact, the version of the struggle for existence that emerged over the twentieth century had even less room for play than the older Victorian one. Herbert Spencer himself had no problem with the idea of animal play as purposeless, a mere enjoyment of surplus energy. Just as a successful industrialist or salesman could go home and play a nice game of cribbage or polo, why should those animals that succeeded in the struggle for existence not also have a bit of fun? But in the new full-blown capitalist version of evolution, where the drive for accumulation had no limits, life was no longer an end in itself, but a mere instrument for the propagation of DNA sequences — and so the very existence of play was something of a scandal."
- David Graeber, from "What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?" The Baffler, January 2014.
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philosophybits · 11 months
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We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, the right to live, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal. We must acknowledge this, and proclaim it aloud, and act upon it.
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
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nando161mando · 7 months
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"Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!"
Peter Kropotkin
"Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1896.
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anarchywoofwoof · 3 months
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“Born on December 9, 1842 into an aristocratic family in Tsarist Russia, Peter Kropotkin developed radical ideas in the course of his scientific research. In 1874, a few hours after he presented a well-received report regarding glacial formations to the Geographical Society, he was arrested and accused of subversive activity. The following narrative, derived from his own memoir and other historical documents, details his escape from a St. Petersburg prison two years later.”
Happy Birthday to the bread man
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pawmmunism · 26 days
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"conquest of bread? more like conquest to give head."
-Peter Kropotkin
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victusinveritas · 22 days
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