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The Conquest of Bread (French: La Conquête du Pain; Russian: Хлѣбъ и воля, romanized: Khleb i volja, "Bread and Freedom"; Хлеб и воля in contemporary spelling), also known colloquially as The Bread Book, is an 1892 book by the Russian anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin.
- Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
- 1892
- Our riches. 1.1. The human race has travelled a long way, since those remote ages when men fashioned their rude implements of flint and lived on the precarious spoils of hunting, leaving to their children for their only heritage a shelter beneath the rocks, some poor utensils – and Nature, vast, unknown, and terrific, with whom they had to fight for their wretched existence.
- Well-being for all. 2.1. Well-being for all is not a dream. It is possible, realizable, owing to all that our ancestors have done to increase our powers of production.
- Anarchist communism. 3.1. Every society, on abolishing private property will be forced, we maintain, to organize itself on the lines of Communistic Anarchy.
- Expropriation. 4.1. It is told of Rothschild that, seeing his fortune threatened by the Revolution of 1848, he hit upon the following stratagem: “I am quite willing to admit,” said he, “that my fortune has been accumulated at the expense of others; but if it were divided to-morrow among the millions of Europe, the share of each would only amount to four shillings.
of Bread Conquest The is the Except that could appear outdated. a book that process destruction of power is not the schematic we usually entrust to great explosions of violence, of repres against the structures attacks or to small -e destruction of the constituted order also sion. Th evaluation the slow and optimistic passes through
8,378 ratings751 reviews. 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 equitable means of satisfying them. A combination of detailed historical analysis and far-reaching Utopian vision, this is a step-by-step guide to ...
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Jan 12, 2006 · A classic book by Peter Kropotkin that outlines the most rational and equitable means of satisfying human needs and creating a social revolution. The book combines historical analysis and utopian vision, and includes a new introduction by Charles Weigl that discusses its contemporary relevance.
A classic anarchist text that argues for a society based on mutual aid and cooperation, not on exploitation and hierarchy. Kropotkin critiques the modern world and offers a vision of a better future in this influential book.
The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world's foremost spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Conquest of Bread is his most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.
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