Kropotkin in the Guardian

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    alanjjohnstone
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    If only we could get such coverage for free access

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/anarchism-could-help-save-the-world

    Considering the frequency that we use the term "free access" there should be a dedicated pamphlet to the idea. 

    #112081
    Anonymous
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    Re: Kropotkin, the Times Literary Supplement this week is running a feature on Victorian Darwinism: Huxleyans vs socialists.

    #112082
    Anonymous
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    In fact, to my mind, praise for Huxley by socialists is uncalled for. And did he (this bourgeois apologist) not refuse to sign a petition that others had signed to release Kropotkin from prison?

    #112083
    DJP
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    alanjjohnstone wrote:
    If only we could get such coverage for free access

    All these articles are PR for the brand new Penguin Classics edition of "The Conquest Of Bread"

    #112084
    ALB
    Keymaster

    Couldn't find the reference in the article to "free access". Pity because that's what he did stand for. I notice that it also fails to mention Kropotkin's support for the First World Slaughter. And I thought the IWW was more influenced by anarcho-syndicalism rather than anarcho-communism (which, in the anarchist tradition, have seen themselves as rivals). Enough pedanticism as he was basically a good guy who influenced William Morris and demolished the idea of "labour-time vouchers" (in, in fact, chapter 13 of The Conquest of Bread).Review of a book about his Mutual Aid  and TH Huxley here:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2011/no-1279-march-2011/book-reviews-crude-world-mutual-aid-introduction-an

    #112085
    imposs1904
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    From the archives:What Marx Should Have Said To Kropotkinhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-marx-should-have-said-to-kropotkin.html

    #112086
    Anonymous
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    The social, and not biological, basis of oppression and violence, such as we see in modern capitalism, was also pointed out 100 years before Darwin, by J.J. Rousseau in his Discourse on Inequality. But those who scoff at socialism would also scoff at this.Also, Rousseau speculates (in 1756!) on physiological evolutionary changes, but says honestly that he won`t elaborate upon this since he doesn`t know.

    #112087
    Anonymous
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    Huxley vivisected, and came up with garbage.  Kropotkin observed, and wrote Mutual Aid!   I rest my case.

    #112088
    ALB
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    I'm not in favour of vivisection (far from it, certainly not in its original sense of cutting up animals while they are still alive) but that's not a logical argument.It's about as logical as arguing: Paul Lafargue wrote The Right To Be Lazy and was not against vivisection, therefore vivisection is not bad. This doesn't follow either. And of course there are all sorts of people who didn't vivisect and still came up with garbage …

    #112089
    james19
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    Great piece, and thanks for the link.  I mentioned the Party, Socialism and get the odd dissenter….. Not sure if the person is genuine or GCHQ?Having posted the link, I lost my dissenter, and a few people were very interested in Kropotkin.I was wondering if I could start a thread on Kropotkin? Any ideas? YFS 

    #112090
    james19
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    Re-  Eugene V. Debs, I found a great picture and comment re,  workers and the rich, via occupy on Facebook. Would be great to see it more here?!  Not sure re posting it atm. 

    #112091
    james19
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    #112092
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    james19 wrote:
    I was wondering if I could start a thread on Kropotkin?

    Feel free; almost anything would be better than having rocks talk to us.  

    #112093
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    ALB. Hi. It`s still a fact, though, that everyone who does vivisect comes up with garbage!

    #112094
    Anonymous
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    "Posture Maketh the Man" by S.J. Gould treats of Engels` "The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man."

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