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Born 9 December 1842, Russia.
Full name: Peter Alexandrovitch Kropotkin.
"Prince Peter Kropotkin, one of the few members of the Czarist nobility to go over to the revolution, was the ablest and most influential theoretical anarchist of his time. For 42 years he lived in exile (mainly in England), making a scanty living, before he was allowed to return to Russia in 1917 at the age of 75. During this time he wrote a great number of popular books and pamphlets in which he advocated complete social reorganization based on mutual aid, sympathy, individual liberty through free cooperation, and solidarity.
"Kropotkin saw anarchism as simply the formulation of an ancient and universal desire of mankind. As a principle of freedom, it carried him far outside the economic and political struggle (he was bitterly opposed to Marxist socialism) into all social relations -- marriage, education, the treatment of crime, the function of law and the basis of morality." -- [publisher's bumpf, Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets edited by Roger N.Baldwin, Dover edition 1970]
"Although he was a direct descendant of the Ruriks, who were Czars before the Romanoffs, he never referred to himself as a prince, and he disliked titles. He says in his Memoirs that he dropped his title at the age of twelve 'under the influence of republican teachings', and never used it thereafter. He even rebuked his friends, when they so referred to him." --Roger N.Baldwin (in Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets , original edition 1927).
"Despite renouncing his inherited title, Kropotkin was a truly noble man. His ernest plea for a just and ethical society remains an inspiration to many individuals." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1996).
Died 8 february 1921.
The Anarchives
(online magazine)
anarchy
(Anachron Library glossary entry... definition plus links)
Anarchy Archives
("a collection of writings, graphics and commentary by classic anarchists such as Kropotkin, Bakunin, Goldman, etc. There are extensive online texts and bibliographies." --Dana Ward, Professor of Political Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711... e-mail: dward@kokusai.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp)
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