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Kropotkin

[kroh-pot-kin, kruh-, kruh-pawt-kyin]

noun

  1. Prince Pëter Alekseevich 1842–1921, Russian geographer, author, and anarchist.



Kropotkin

/ kraˈpɔtkin /

noun

  1. Prince Peter, Russian name Pyotr Alexeyevich. 1842–1921, Russian anarchist: his books include Mutual Aid (1902) and Modern Science and Anarchism (1903)

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The practice of mutual aid is an old one, first conceptualized as an organizing theory by Russian anarchist Pëtr Kropotkin in 1902.

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Kropotkin's radical 1892 text, The Conquest of Bread, continues to influence anarchists around the world to this day.

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“Does that mean if the F.S.B. shows up and finds a copy of Kropotkin”—a Russian philosopher and proponent of anarcho-communism, who died in 1921—“it’s enough to send me off to prison?”

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The family home in Adel was an alternative salon of radical figures, including the celebrated Russian anarchist Prince Kropotkin.

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In the time of Darwin and Kropotkin the research needed to verify these claims was in its infancy, but recent work has supported this vision of the natural world.

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