The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin
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The Conquest of Bread

Author: Peter Kropotkin

Narrator: Sam Swann

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2022


Synopsis

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'Well-being for all is not a dream.'

In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over, again and again.

© David Priestland, Introduction & Notes 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tinea on April 22, 2012

Uplifting, light, and truly enjoyable! While I stand by an earlier assertion that best way to learn about anarchism nowadays is through radical permaculture ecologists and intersectional women of color feminists, I was surprised to find The Conquest of Bread is really worth reading, too. In terms of......more

Goodreads review by Sean on July 07, 2012

This book was thoroughly disappointing, especially after reading Memoirs of a Revolutionist, which was an incredible book. This book however, was pretty much a 279 page rant about what a perfect society would look like, and what was wrong with the industrialized world at that time, rather than how......more

Goodreads review by cee on March 04, 2017

FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM......more

Goodreads review by Kathyana on March 02, 2023

I hope this doesn't put me on some list......more