Peter Kropotkin
Part of a series on Anarcho-communism Concepts Anarchy Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Anti-statism Proletarian internationalism Class consciousness Class struggle Classless society Common ownership Commons Commune Consensus democracy Co-operative economics Direct democracy Egalitarian community Free association Free store "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" Mass strike Gift economy Market abolitionism Mutual aid Prefigurative politics Primitive communism Stateless communism Stateless society Workers' control Worker cooperative Workers' council Wage slavery People Joseph Déjacque Peter Kropotkin Carlo Cafiero Emilio Covelli Errico Malatesta Emma Goldman Luigi Galleani Ricardo Flores Magón Alexander Berkman Buenaventura Durruti Volin Sébastien Faure Nestor Makhno Murray Bookchin Albert Meltzer Lucien van der Walt Organizational forms Insurrectionary anarchism Platformism Synthesis federations Theoretical works The Conquest of Bread Fields, Factories and Workshops Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Anarchism and Other Essays Now and After The Right To Be Greedy Post-Scarcity Anarchism Related topics Anarchism Autonomism Communization Council communism Left communism Libertarian socialism Social anarchism v t e Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (/kroʊˈpɒtkɪn, krə-/; Russian: Пётр Алексе евич Кропо ткин; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian geographer, economist, activist, philologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, writer and prominent anarchist. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.