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"Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin
🕑 Added 2022-11-06 15:33:50 +0000 UTCEARLY RELEASE: Alyson and Breht summarize and reflect on the famous "Bread Book" by Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread.
After summarizing the text and its main arguments, Alyson and Breht discuss the similarities and differences between Marxism and Anarchism, and both applaud and criticize elements of the text in the process.
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Sophia
You might also be interested in reading Gerald Hüther's book "the evolution of love" where he talks about how Darwin's work has been distorted and how evolution and survival for human beings has been based on love and compassion. Huther is a neurobiologist.
Ducky Phillips
Great episode, thank you for this! Smart choice of text as a launching off point, I just want to highly recommend Kropotkin’s “mutual aid: a factor of evolution” for a really enjoyable and important critique of what was, at that time, a growing trend of distorting Darwin’s work to emphasize an individualistic interpretation (natural selection), and completely abandon his findings on the role of cooperation and mutual support among various thriving animal populations.
Jack Sauer
I am HYPED for a "Desert" episode! I remember that text had a huge impact on me during my anarchist days.
