Here is an immense stock of tools and implements here are all those iron slaves which we call machines, which saw and plane, spin and weave for us, unmaking and remaking, working up raw matter to produce the marvels of our time. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. "The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.
The Conquest of Bread has become a classic of political anarchist literature. He goes on to propose a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organization already exist, both in evolution and in human society. In the work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism and why he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity. Between 18, it was serialized in part in the London journal Freedom, of which Kropotkin was a co-founder. It was first published in Paris with a preface by lis e Reclus, who also suggested the title.
Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journal Le R volt. The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin.
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