Below is an excerpt from Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist, where the great anarchist geographer describes reading Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories while imprisoned in Russia in 1874. When he learned about my arrest, [my brother] Alexander immediately left everything, — the work of his life, the life itself of freedom which was as necessary for […]
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We publish below the call for papers of the upcoming conference “1921-2021: 100 years with and without Kropotkin”. Kropotkin has left an important imprint on the theoretical body of Social Ecology and because of this we strongly support every effort at researching and examining his legacy today. Piotr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was one of the […]
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Black Rose Books, in global collaboration with other organizations, scholars, activists, and university departments, organized a conference (5-8 of February) to celebrate Peter Kropotkin’s life and work. This conference commemorated 100 years since his death on February 8th, 1921. Kropotkin is undoubtedly one of the most important anarchist thinkers to understand the vision, and action, […]
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Written by Mike Davis. Excerpts from Davis’ article The Coming Desert: Kropotkin, Mars and the Pulse of Asia (originally published in New Left Review 97, January-February 2016) Anthropogenic climate change is usually portrayed as a recent discovery, with a genealogy that extends no further backwards than Charles Keeling sampling atmospheric gases from his station near […]
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