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Bread for All!
it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied

the whole of chapter 4 slaps

in summary: “everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

chapter 3 part 1 “there is no sufficient reason why one should pay twice as much as the other because his need is twice as great”

chapter 1 part 2 is written so descriptively, it's really making me realise just how much our society is built on the back of generations of labour that came before it, and labour by workers on the other side of the world that produced the conditions for great inventions to be made in this part. it's all interconnected.

Chapter 3

Chapter 2

just after foreword and introduction, chapter 1

First chapter was pretty good! Very simple idea that because all ideas depend on previous work, nobody can claim their new idea completely as their own.

anarcho-communism pog

Kropotkin lays out a logical framework for as to why gradual reform, and the perpetuation of the wage system will only cause us to fall further back into capitalism.

let them eat bread

The second chapter focused on capitalism’s sheer amount of waste and the downsides of centralized power after revolution.

So far this book’s been relatively thought provoking and was able to put into words effectively the ineffective and unfair nature of capitalism.

Its weird that very problems he describes for 19th century are the same we face today. Even some of the characters involved, for example Vanderbilt family capitalist empire is mentioned, and then you remember Andersoon Cooper is a Vanderbilt still in our lives ruling.

Pytor drops viscious truths in every sentence and paints a picture of a world that could be better. I can only read it 10 mins at a time because this book makes me too horny for socialism.

started reading the bread book

i can see the importance of COB, many interesting/thought-provoking ideas, it's worth reading as Left criticism of Marx (and Lenin, even if by proxy). main issue was the stray slur that popped up rather randomly, especially considering his preaching anti-racist/imperialist sentiments. seemed out of place, regardless of century-old, (mis?)translated intent. it's worth bringing up and critiquing.

lives up to the hype

ch. 11 mind is being blown

this dude's sexy as hell

For Kropotkin, capitalism persists because people depend on starvation wages to buy food, shelter, & clothing. If the means of production were directed away from luxuries & toward necessities, the working day could be halved & enough goods would still be produced for everyone. But ultimately, this depends on the spontaneous cooperation of large groups of people -- the wishful thinking of every anarchist dreamer.

Trying to figure out what the fuck is going on here.

Kropotkin begins with an obvious but powerful truth: The safe, habitable, orderly world we live in today -- with its wealth, resource abundance, & technological marvels -- is an inheritance built on the labor & suffering of tens of millions of people who lived before us. This inheritance belongs to all of us ("all for all" is Kropotkin's mantra), not just the few privileged by the social-political norms of our time.

this slaps hardcore
redistribute the bread bro!!!!!!!!!! yeehaw!!!!!!!!!!! 😤😤
bout to simp for kropotkin 😳

erin actually reading theory???

"Truly, we are rich, far richer than we think; rich in what we already possess, richer still in the possibilities of production of our actual mechanical outfit; richest of all in what we might win from our soil, from our manufactures, from our science, from our technical knowledge, were they but applied to bringing about the well-being of all."

European societies have developed up to a certain point they have shaken off the yoke of authority and substituted a system founded roughly more or less on the principles of individual liberty. And 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 the intellectual field."

It’s a reread bihhhh :)

Luxuries in anarchism

I have rarely read a book from the 1890s and found it to still be so powerfully relevant! This should be on every school curriculum in the world