Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a leading proponent of anarchist communism. He drew on his scientific training to argue that cooperation, not only competition, was a major factor in evolution and social development, and used that argument to support a stateless, decentralized form of communism organized around voluntary association. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped anarchist communism and the theory of mutual aid as a cooperative counterpart to Darwinian competition, arguing in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution that cooperation is a major factor in evolution and social development. 1 Notable WorkMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) 1 Notable WorkThe Conquest of Bread (1892) 1 Peter Kropotkin
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
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9 December [O.S. 27 November] 1842
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Moscow, Russian Empire
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8 February 1921
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Dmitrov, Russian SFSR
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The Conquest of Bread (1892)
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
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Thus, Kropotkin wrote that maintaining the state would paralyze any true social revolution, making the idea of a "revolutionary government" a contradiction in terms:
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Under the influence of Peter Kropotkin, a Russian philosopher and scientist, anarcho-communism overlapped with collectivism.
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