Conquest of Bread: With an Excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson

The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 work by Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin outlines what he believes are the main problems with both feudalism and capitalism and explains why they require and encourage poverty and scarcity through the description of a future society based on liberty equality and fraternity. A must-read for those with an interest in anarchy communism or libertarianism. Contents include: Our Riches Well-Being for All Anarchist Communism Expropriation Food Dwellings Clothing Ways and Means The Need for Luxury Agreeable Work Free Agreement Objections The Collectivist Wages System Consumption and Production The Division of Labour etc. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian writer activist revolutionary economist scientist sociologist essayist historian researcher political scientist geographer geographer biologist philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer producing a large number of pamphlets and articles the most notable being The Conquest of Bread and Fields Factories and Workshops and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson.