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Communists saw Capitalism as Feudalism evolved, and eventually things would get so bad everyone would revolt against the landlords and the factoryowners whose ownership of everything forced the masses to work for starvation wages. This shared experience made Communism inevitable, so the working people of the world would cooperate and never live this way again.

Reading this optimism now is quite painful.

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For [...] he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.

It’s a bit dated yes but a lot of the roots of this books hold true even today.

"To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts or the parliaments to her, for the 'emancipated' woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman"

Girlboss "feminists" seething and coping in the qrts rn lol

i get what he means but like ,, ch. 12 is still pretty ableist

audible anarchist is cool 😌

It’s very interesting. There’s a lot I agree with in concept, and a lot I don’t. But it’s fascinating to read. Especially in exploring the political context of the time.

Although I’m a proponent of anarchocommunism and Kropotkin, I see a lot of assumptions about human nature that are oversimplified or not necessarily true to reality.

boring, i lent it to my friend and he seems to like it tho, i'll come back another time

“All belongs to all. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one’s part in the production of the world’s wealth.”

Okok now he’s kinda going in. Still boring as all hell though

Not since I read J S Mill have I loved a philosopher so much. Literally, this book is so much better than I expected it to be.

Daddy.

i need to read more FUCK

"A revolution is more than a mere change of the prevailing political system. It implies the awakening of human intelligence, the increasing of the inventive spirit tenfold, a hundredfold; it is the dawn of a new science...It is a revolution in the minds of men as deep, and deeper still, than in their institutions."

"..a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half."

Expected bread, got communism. I am ok with this.

I thought this would be interesting. I just picked it up yesterday and can already say there is more truth in the first 10 pages than 99% of today's political punditry... and it's maybe even truer today than it was 130 years ago... which fact angers and saddens me to a degree, but I am also glad that these ideas are still around and we're at least free enough to still explore and discuss them.

beard guy very optimistic

bread book <3

i’ve been calling myself an anarcho-communist for years without reading any significant amount of theory let’s goooooo

“If only humanity had the consciousness of what it CAN, and if that consciousness only gave it the power to will!
If it only knew that cowardice of the spirit is the rock on which all revolutions have stranded until now.”

I read the bread book!!

“history shows us that these periods of partial or general revolution, when the governments were overthrown, were also periods of sudden progress both in the economic and intellectual field” ✍️🧐

"With childlike faith, with the good humor of the masses who believe in their leaders, they think that 'yonder', in the House, in the Town Hall, in the Committee of Public Safety, their welfare is being considered. But 'yonder' they are discussing everything under the sun except the welfare of the people."

“A society having taken possession of all social wealth, having boldly proclaimed the right of all to this wealth — whatever share they may have taken in producing it — will be compelled to abandon any system of wages, whether in currency or labour-notes.” ch13

i really liked ch 12 part 4 - about ‘idlers’ and the cause of idleness.

“Suppress the cause of idleness, and you may take it for granted that few individuals will really hate work, especially voluntary work, and that there will be no need to manufacture a code of laws on their account.”

(The people) love or hate one another, work, or live on their incomes; but... their lives remain ignored by newspapers. It is even so with history. We know the least details of the life of a king or of a parliament; all... speeches pronounced by the politicians have been preserved. But we have the greatest difficulty to reconstitute a city of the Middle Ages... or to know how the city of Rouen built its cathedral”

after bread is secured, leisure is the supreme aim
ch 9

to be housed rent-free is a right proclaimed by the people

i did enjoy chapter 6: dwellings

"Pero nadie llega a tener tan firme creencia como [Kropotkin] en que la ciencia posee la capacidad de revelar las causas generales del sufrimiento humano y de aportar soluciones prácticas a los problemas de la humanidad desde una perspectiva que devuelve la armonía al mundo" < 3