Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings [Paperback ed.] 048641955X

Table of contents :
INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION • V
THE SIGNIFICANCE OP KROPOTKIN's LIFE AND TEACHING I
THE STOR.Y OF KROPOTKIN'S LIFE 13
NoTE ON THE EDITING OF THE PAMPHLETS. 31
THE SPIR.IT OF REVOLT • 34
ANARCHIST CoMMUNISM: ITs BAsis AND PRINCIPLES • 44
ANARCHIST MORALITY • 79
ANARCHISM: ITS PHILosoPHY AND IDEAL n4
MODERN SCIENCE AND ANARCHISM • • • 145
The Place of Anarchism in Modern Science • 1 50
The Anarchist Ideal and the Preceding Revolutions I 54
Growth of Anarchist Ideas • • Is 8
Anarchism and the Free Commune • • 162.
Bakunin and the State • • 165
Economic Views of Anarchism • • 169
Remuneration of Labor • • 171
Anarchism and the Law • • 174
Economic Laws • • 177
The Means of Action • • 182
Conclusion • • 191
LAW AND AUTHORITY • • • • • 195
PRISONS AND THEIR MOR.AL INFLUENCE ON PRISONERS 2 I 9
The Prison as a School of Crime • • 220
The Futility of Prisons • • • • • .u I
The Criminals in Prison and Outside • • 2.2.2
Prison Labor • • • • • • • • • .u 3
The Effect of Cutting Off Social Contacts • • .2.24
The Theory of Will Power • • • • • 2.24
The Effect of Prison Clothes and Discipline • 2.26
Prison Guards • • • • • • • 2.27
How Shall We Deal with Offenders? • • 2.28
Causes of Crime • • • • • • .u 8
How Shall Offenders Be Cured? • • 2.32.
To Sum Up. • 235
REVOLUTIONAllY GoVERNMENT • • • • • .236
Parliament • • • .237
Dictatorship • • • • • • • • • .24.2
The Impotence of Revolutionary Governments • • .246
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SoVIET GOVERN-
MENT • • • • • • • • •
Letter to the Workers of Western Europe.
What to Do?
•
• .251
• .25.2
• .256
AN APPEAL TO THE y OUNG • • • • .260
To the .. Intellectuals" • • • • • .26.2
What You Can Do • • • • • .273
To Working Class Youths • • • • .279
ANARCHISM-ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ARTICLE • .283
The Historical Development of Anarchism • • .287
Anarchism in the International Working Men's
Association • • .293
PARTIAL BIBUOGRAPHY OF KROPOTKIN'S REVOLUTlt>N-
ARY, HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL WRITINGS • 301
Books in English • • • 301
Pamphlets in English • • 30.2
In Other Languages • • • • • • • • 303
Notes on Kropotkin's Books as an Aid to Further
Reading • • • • • • • • • • 3 04

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PETER KROPOTKIN

ANARCHISM A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

ANARCHISM A

COLLECTION OF

REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS

PETER KROPOTKIN Edited by

Roger N. Baldwin

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. Mineola, New York

Copyright Copyright© 1970, 2002 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Vanguard Press, New York, in 1927, under the title Kropotkin's Rwo/111ionary Pamphlets. Dover Publications first published the work in 1970, under the same title. The Introduction to the Dover Edition was written by Roger N. Baldwin for the 1970 edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz', 1842-1921. [Selections. English. 2002) Anarchism : a collection of revolutionary writings / Peter Kropotkin. p.cm. Originally published by Vanguard Press, New York, in 1927 under the title: Kropotkin's revolutionary pamphlets. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-486-41955-X (pbk.) 1. Anarchism. I. Title. HX833 .K7213 2002 335'.83--