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"The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin

Red Menace

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When Push Comes to Plunge, We're All Communists

Communistic elements are always present to some degree and even violently anti-communist societies, he says. Crapot can go deeper in his defense of anarchy, arguing that it is the natural and logical conclusion of human evolution aimed toward individual liberty. This evolutionary impulse is blocked, he says, like water slamming into a dam by capitalism and the state. But ours is neither the communist of Fourier, i.e. utopian socialism, nor the communism of the German state socialists (i.e. Marxism and scientific socialism). It is anarchist communism, communism without government, the Communism of the free. Mutual agreement between individuals replaces law in view of common object,. All that was once looked on

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