
"The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin
Red Menace
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Kropotkin's Anatomy of Capitalism
Kropotkin is not as extreme as some anarchists on this front because he still embraces some of the more progressive aspects of capitalism. He also rejects a scientific socialism by rejecting the necessity of beginning economic analysis with a focus on production. Kropotkin runs away a little bit from the real material reality in which humanity exists and starts in the abstract. And it's admirable that he wants to place his socialism on a scientific basis, which is something that many non-Marxists don't even try to do.
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