![]() Kropotkin advocated communal living and a gift economy and argued for the abolition of money and written law. His notable books include The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid: A Factor Of Evolution, which both proposed an equal role for cooperation as opposed to competition alone in driving evolution, and Fields, Factories, and Workshops, which includes a repudiation of the ideas of Thomas Malthus and comes across as rather optimistic about the prospects for technology improving industrial and agricultural output, leading to economic decentralism and local self-sufficiency. ![]() Kropotkin was an outspoken opponent of Social Darwinism, drawing on research performed in Siberia to argue that altruism was an evolutionary advantage. Pyoter Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин, occasionally romanized as Pioter, Peter, Bread Santa, or even "stinky P" Kropotkin) (1842–1921) was a Russian zoologist known primarily as one of the primary thinkers of anarcho-communism. ![]()
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