Drawing by Natalia Mikhaylenko
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was born in 1842 and breathed his last in 1921. Kropotkin was a Russian noble. He was educated for army and at the age of twenty he became a military officer in Siberia.
Kropotkin’s great interest in science developed from his military training which he received to get a job. This moulded his life in future. He had a scientific mind and devoted his time and energy to the study of books on science.
As a military officer in Siberia Kropotkin got ample opportunity for geographical survey and expedition. Thus his shift from military service to geographical survey and expeditions enriched the subject profoundly. He contributed many articles to different journals.
Peter Kropotkin was a man of different mentality and attitude. His stay in military service could not satisfy his academic and intellectual requirements and desires and after serving several years he relinquished the job, and entered the University of St. Petersburg in 1867. His vast knowledge in geography brought for him the post of secretary of Geographical Society.
Even this vital administrative post could not detain him for long time. He moved to radical political movements. In 1872, Peter Kropotkin joined the International Workingmen’s Association. Later on he was deeply involved in subversive and anarchical activities. This led him to imprisonment in 1874.
He escaped from prison in 1876 and went to England. The England of the second half of eighteenth century was the centre of revolutionary activities, although she never experienced any revolution.
He also travelled to Switzerland and Paris. While in Paris he was again arrested by the French government in 1883. Released from prison in 1886 he went to England and settled there. While in exile, Kropotkin gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography. He returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917 but was disappointed by the Bolshevik state. The rest of his life was spent without political activity.
Peter Kropotkin was an evolutionist anarchist. But his evolutionism was more scientific than that of his predecessors. He wrote several books on anarchism such as ‘The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution (1886), The Conquest of Bread (1888), Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)’, ‘The State – Its Part in History (1898)’ and ‘Modern Science and Anarchism (1903)’. His deep interest in science, particularly biology and anthropology, opened before him new and enchanting vistas of knowledge and all these inspired him to study biological science with added interest.
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The Funeral of Peter Kropotkin :anarchists:
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A meeting between V.I. Lenin and P. A. Kropotkin :lenin-shining: :kropotkin-shining:
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Words of a Rebel :anarchy:
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution :AC-AnarKitty:
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Syndicalism and Anarchism :ancom:
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If you don’t flatten your boxes before putting them in the recycling your spirit is impure. You will not escape samsara
i nest the unflattened boxes so densely that it’s like a solid block of wood, which I will use to shatter the wheel of samsara entirely and free us all
Okay nesting is fine you’re gonna make it. Really I’m just mad at anyone who makes no effort to reduce the amount of space their boxes take up. Especially with the tiny ass recycling bin at my building. I’m gonna suck up all their loosh
Its samsara wheels all the way down unfortunately, moksha from one just leads you to the next.
When I was working a kitchen at a college we had a GIANT cardboard dumpster and I didnt want fucking ANYONE crushing their cardboard down and to just leave it on the loading dock so I could spend the last hour of my day outside breaking down boxes (unless it was winter or raining hard). The cardboard dumpster was a great place to hide and nap as well. It had a lid so it wasnt exposed at night and just had dry cardboard boxes in it, super cozy.