The Conquest of Bread

ΓÇ£The Conquest of BreadΓÇ¥ 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: ΓÇ£Our RichesΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Well-Being for AllΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Anarchist CommunismΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£ExpropriationΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£FoodΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£DwellingsΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£ClothingΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Ways and MeansΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£The Need for LuxuryΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Agreeable WorkΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Free AgreementΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£ObjectionsΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£The Collectivist Wages SystemΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£Consumption and ProductionΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£The Division of LabourΓÇ¥, etc.Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842ΓÇô1921) 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 ΓÇ£The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and WorkshopsΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Mutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionΓÇ¥. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from ΓÇ£Comrade KropotkinΓÇ¥ by Victor Robinson.