Anarchist thinkers: Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)

Overview:

• he supported Lenin during the Russian Revolution, but soon became disillusioned and took no part in Bolshevik government
• he was in exile for most of his life, and it was the kind of traditional peasant communes that he observed, where goods and work were shared on an equal basis, and it was on this that he based his beliefs

His ideas:

• most scientific of the leading anarchists, and drew inspiration from the animal kingdom when considering human…