Peter Kropotkin

Question 1

Where did Kropotkin visit that helped covert him to anarchism?

Answer 1

The Jura Federation in Switzerland where he observed an experiment in cooperative production and living among a community of watch-makers who pooled their resources and the profits of their work

Question 2

Which theory did Kropotkin become interest in?

Answer 2

Social Darwinism

Question 3

What did social Darwinism argue?s

Answer 3

That inequality was natural in the animal kingdom and under capitalism it was a similar process

Question 4

What did Kropotkin challenge about social Darwinism?

Answer 4

That in most of the animal world, creatures are cooperative and not competitive, most animal living in natural social groups and engage in mutual aid

Question 5

What is Kropotkin key works?

Answer 5

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1898)

Question 6

What branch of anarchism was Kropotkin?

Answer 6

Anarcho-communism

Question 7

What was Kropotkin argument about force?

Answer 7

That if people were free to join whichever community they wished, they would not be subjected to any force

Question 8

What did Kropotkin argue would happen without scarcity?

Answer 8

There would be no competition and without competition there would be no inequality

Question 9

What was Kropotkin view of getting rid of the state?

Answer 9

By resolution, and by violent means if necessary