Peter Kropotkin Modern Science and Anarchy

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This was Peter Kropotkin’s final book, in which he theorizes about the development of the modern state and how modern science and technology can assist in freeing working people from capitalism. First published in 1912 in France, sections of this book have been translated and published in English (as short books and pamphlets and journal articles), but never as a whole work as Kropotkin intended. More than 10 percent of this book has never before appeared in English. Introduced and annotated by Iain Mc Kay.

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Introduction: Reality has a Well-known Libertarian Basis, by Iain Mc Kay

Preface

Part I: Modern Science and Anarchy

I. The Origins of Anarchy

II. The Intellectual Movement of the Eighteenth Century

III. The Reaction at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century

IV. The Positive Philosophy of Comte

V. The Awakening in the Years 1856-1862

VI. The Synthetic Philosophy of Spencer

VII. The Role of Law in Society

VIII. The Position of Anarchy in Modern Science

IX. The Anarchist Ideal and Previous Revolutions

X. Anarchy

Principles

Anarchist Ideas amongst the Ancients; in the Middle Ages—Proudhon-Stirner

XI. Anarchy (continued)

Socialist Ideas in the International—Authoritarian Communists and Mutualists

Socialist Ideas in the International—Saint-Simonism

XII. Anarchy (continued)

Socialist Ideas in the International—Fourierism

The Impulse given by the Commune—Bakunin

XIII. Anarchy (continued)

The Anarchist Concept as it appears today

The Negation of the State

The Individualist Current

XIV. Some Conclusions of Anarchy

XV. The Means of Action

XVI. Conclusion

Part II

Communism and Anarchy

I. Anarchist Communism

II. Authoritarian Communism—Communist Communities

III. Small communist communities. Causes of their failures

IV. Does Communism imply the diminishing of the individual?

Part III

The State: Its Historic Role

Part IV

The Modern State

I. The Essential Principle of Modern Society

II. Serfs of the State

III. Taxation as a Means of Increasing the Power of the State

IV. Taxation a Means of Enriching the Wealthy

V. Monopolies

VI. Monopolies in the Nineteenth Century

VII. Monopolies in constitutional England and Germany—Kings of the epoch

VIII. War

Industrial Rivalries

High Finance

IX. War and Industry

Industrial crises due to anticipation of war

X. The Essential Characteristics of the State

XI. Can the State be used for the emancipation of the workers?

XII. The modern constitutional State

XIII. Is it sensible to strengthen the current State?

XIV. Conclusions

Part V

Appendix

I. Explanatory Notes

II. Hebert Spencer: His Philosophy

Supplementary Material

Anarchy: Its Philosophy, Its Ideal

A lecture which was to be held on March 6th, 1896, in the Tivoli-Vauxhall theatre in Paris

Co-operation: A Reply to Herbert Spencer

Index

Despre autor

Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of anarchism’s most famous thinkers. His classic works include
The Conquest of Bread;
Fields, Factories and Workshops;
Memoirs of a Revolutionist; and
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. Iain Mc Kay is editor of
An Anarchist FAQ (Vols. I and II),
Direct Struggle against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology, and
Property is Theft!: A Pierre Joseph-Proudhon Anthology.

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