Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Conquest of Bread

Autor Peter Kropotkin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2017
One of the founding Classics of Anarchist literature, Peter Kropotkin's book is a thoughtful, humane and detailed critique of capitalism, a system which allows a small, rich elite to hold the majority of the population in poverty and servitude, despite there being enough globally to satisfy the needs (and even the luxuries) of everyone. The Conquest of Bread gives a spirited rejoinder to all who believe Anarchism 'sounds good' but cannot succeed in practice. Using data from his own time, the former Russian Prince (whose family owned more than 1000 serfs) lays out a detailed account of Anarchist Society - a fair and equitable social system based upon the concept that, as all things are the common inheritance of Mankind, they should, and can be, held in common. Many of Kropotkin's concepts are surprisingly contemporary, including a 'needs' as opposed to a 'contributory' scheme of social care, and food security via a system that sounds suspiciously like present-day Permaculture! A book for all those interested in changing society for the better.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (9) 5885 lei  3-5 săpt. +696 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 25 iun 2015 5885 lei  3-5 săpt. +696 lei  7-13 zile
  BLURB INC – 25 ian 2024 12450 lei  18-23 zile +1245 lei  7-13 zile
  Digireads.com – 28 mai 2020 9448 lei  39-44 zile
  AZILOTH BOOKS – 2 sep 2017 9452 lei  39-44 zile
  Ancient Wisdom Publications – 15 mar 2017 10582 lei  39-44 zile
  Lulu.Com – 2 aug 2018 10756 lei  39-44 zile
  Binker North – mar 1892 13194 lei  39-44 zile
  Bibliotech Press – 7 ian 2020 13377 lei  39-44 zile
  COSIMO CLASSICS – aug 2009 14464 lei  39-44 zile
Hardback (2) 21561 lei  39-44 zile
  Lulu.Com – 2 aug 2018 21561 lei  39-44 zile
  Bibliotech Press – 7 ian 2020 23012 lei  39-44 zile

Preț: 9452 lei

Puncte Express: 142

Preț estimativ în valută:
1811 1962$ 1553£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-11 mai

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781911405429
ISBN-10: 191140542X
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: AZILOTH BOOKS

Notă biografică

The fascinating story of a Russian prince-turned-anarchist, Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921). Kropotkin one of the world's first international celebrities. In England, Kropotkin was known as a brilliant scientist, famous for his work on animal and human cooperation, but Kropotkin's fame in continental Europe centered more on his role as a founder and vocal proponent of anarchism. In the United States, he pursued both passions. Tens of thousands of people followed ex-Prince Peter during two speaking tours in America.Kropotkin's path to fame was unexpected and labyrinthine, with asides in prison, breathtaking 50,000-mile journeys through the wastelands of Siberia, and banishment, for one reason or another, from most respectable Western countries of the day. In his homeland of Russia, Peter went from being Czar Alexander II's favored teenage page, to a young man enamored with the theory of evolution, to a convicted felon, jail-breaker and general agitator, eventually being chased halfway around the world by the Russian Secret police for his radical-some might (and did) say enlightened-political views.Both while in jail, and while on the run when he was entertaining and enlightening huge crowds, Kropotkin found the energy and concentration to write books on a dazzling array of topics: evolution and behavior, ethics, the geography of Asia, anarchism, socialism and communism, penal systems, the coming industrial revolution in the East, the French Revolution, and the state of Russian literature. Though seemingly disparate topics, a common thread-the scientific law of mutual aid, which guided the evolution of all life on earth-tied these works together. This law boils down to Kropotkin's deep-seated conviction that what we today would call altruism and cooperation-but what the Prince called mutual aid-was the driving evolutionary force behind all social life, be it in microbes, animals or humans. Today, anthropologists, political scientists, economists and psychologists publish hundreds of studies each year on human cooperation, and researchers in these fields are just beginning to realize that so many of the topics they are investigating were first suggested and promulgated by Peter Kropotkin.