Three by Kropotkin

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Open Letter to P. Kropotkin ALEXANDRE GHÉ LAUSANNE 1916 Dear Master, After an entire series of public declarations in favor of the Triple and Quadruple Entente, which have produced consternation in the anarchist and internationalist milieus, there has recently appeared a new Manifesto, which the bourgeois press has hastened to describe as an “Anarchist Manifesto.” In that Manifesto, also signed by you, you follow the line of conduct that you have mapped out since the beginning of the war, inviting us to support the belligerent Entente. I will not dwell, for […]

  Peter Kropotkin, “The New Era,” The Rebel 1, no. 1 (September 20, 1895): 3. Peter Kropotkin, “The New Era,” The Rebel 1, no. 2 (October 20, 1895): 10-11. Peter Kropotkin, “The Crisis of Socialism,” The Rebel 1, no. 3 (November, 1895): 24-25. Peter Kropotkin, “The New Era,” The Rebel 1, no. 3 (November, 1895): 28-29. Peter Kropotkin, “The New Era,” The Rebel 1, no. 4 (January, 1896): 34. Peter Kropotkin, “The New Era,” The Rebel 1, no. 6 (March-April, 1896): 59-60.   The New Era The following address is one with which Kropotkine opened a series of meetings in […]

We are often reproached for accepting as a label this word anarchy, which frightens many people so much. “Your ideas are excellent”, we are told, “but you must admit that the name of your party is an unfortunate choice. Anarchy in common language is synonymous with disorder and chaos; the word brings to mind the idea of interests clashing, of individuals struggling, which cannot lead to the establishment of harmony”. Let us begin by pointing out that a party devoted to action, a party representing a new tendency, seldom has the opportunity of choosing a name for itself. It was […]