Law and Authority; an Anarchist Essay

by Pyotr Kropotkin

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Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics, Essays, Anarchism

32 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1977

About the author

Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin, prince, Russian anarchist, and political philosopher, greatly influenced movements throughout the world and maintained that cooperation, not competition, the means, bettered the human condition.

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин, other spelling: Pëtr Kropotkin, Pierre Kropotkine), who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ, which seems coming." 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 to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition .

Reviews

[Olethros · Rating 3 out of 5]

-Algunas visiones cuya vigencia actual resulta notable, junto a otras que el tiempo parece desmentir.-

Género. Ensayo.

Lo que nos cuenta. El libro La ley y la autoridad (publicación original: Law and Authority; An Anarchist Essay, 1886) es un breve análisis del autor sobre el concepto de la ley y cómo, en su opinión, es una forma de opresión y control por parte de los grupos dominantes.

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[Adrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read. Marxist approach on laws (in a capitalist society) but the author takes it to the level of all forms of society. No laws meant to punish. I like the idea of this but how will we protect the rights of equality that we establish post revolution from those who wish to take them away?
Kropotkin states reformation but can this not only go so far? Plus without a socialist set of laws how will we know what is considered a true crime? A good starting point to this theory but I’d like to see it expanded more, both in the traditional Marxist sense and in Kropotkin’s anarchist views

[Lidón · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edició de rebesavi - Biblioteca Vertice Llobet, 13 Barcelona (20 cts.)

[Monster Longe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kropotkin's Law and Authority is a classic statement of anarchist thought. The text is fairly easy to read (contrasted to Bakunin, for example) and the argument is laid out in just a number of pages for easy digestion. Moreover, Kropotkin's argument is hard to argue against despite it being so simple.

[Younis khaled · Rating 5 out of 5]

الأعراف والتقاليد التي كانت دوما في صالح الأقلية المهيمنة . أما السلطة العسكرية فتتعهد ضمان الطاعة التي تميل إلى دوام هيمنتهما على الجماهير . مستفيدين من كسل و مخاوف و جمود الحشود, و بفضل التكرار المستمر لنفس الأفعال , التي أصبحت بمرور الوقت أساسا صلبا لهيمنتهم الخاصة

[Juan Valencia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo que mantiene al crimen es la ley y la autoridad 🧐

[taryn ౨ৎ]

for class

[Derek Kreider · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, compelling, and easy to digest.

[Sarbajit Ghosh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I quite like the short polemic style

[Muhamad Rivai · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the idea, but I don't know.... in reality it's not very convincing.

[Juan López · Rating 3 out of 5]

La ley y la autoridad
http://nueva-gomorra.blogspot.com/201...

[Namnlaus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pjotr Kropotkin gjør rede for lovens malisiøse natur og argumenterer for dens avskaffelse i dette essayet fra 1886.

I første del fører forfatteren en sylskarp penn, og skriver overfladisk om lovenes destruktive funksjoner og hensikter, før han går i større detalj i essayets etterfølgende kapitler hvor han i det store og hele argumenterer for at lovens legitimitet hviler på tre ting: Å beskytte eiendom, staten og - viktigst av alt - personen. I folkets øyne er det denne siste funksjonen som rettferdiggjør lovens eksistens, og som luller den gemene hop inn i den tro at loven eksisterer først og fremst for å tjene DEM. Kropotkin tar leseren med på en aldri så liten historieleksjon og gjendriver servile motargumenter som forfekter lovens fordeler med logikk og fakta, selv om jeg synes han gjerne kunne ha lagt ved statistikker som ville gjort verket enda mer dyptgående.