Leftist Reading

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]

I. Our Riches

[Part 2]

II. Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III. Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV. Expropriation

[Part 5]

V. Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V. Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI. Dwellings

VII. Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII. Ways and Means

IX. The Need for Luxury

i. - iii.

[Part 9]

IX. The Need for Luxury

iv. - v.

X. Agreeable Work

[Part 10]

XI. Free Agreement

[Part 11]

XII. Objections

i. - iii.

[Part 12]

XII. Objections

iv.

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

i. - iii.

[Part 13 – This Week]

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

iv. - 00:39

XIV. Consumption and Production

i. - 15:22

ii. - 23:28

[Part 14?]

XV. The Division of Labour

XVI. The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 15?]

XVII. Agricultur

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]

I. Our Riches

[Part 2]

II. Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III. Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV. Expropriation

[Part 5]

V. Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V. Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI. Dwellings

VII. Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII. Ways and Means

IX. The Need for Luxury

i. - iii.

[Part 9]

IX. The Need for Luxury

iv - v

X. Agreeable Work

[Part 10]

XI. Free Agreement

[Part 11]

XII. Objections

i. - iii

[Part 12 - This Week]

XII. Objections

iv. - 00:32

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

i. - 10:52

ii. - 15:44

iii. - 22:40

[Part 13]

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

iv.

XIV. Consumption and Production

[Part 14?

XV. The Division of Labour

[Part 15?]

XVI. The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 16-17?]

XVII. Agriculture

Footnote – 07:53

Kropotkin: In Russian and French Prisons. London, 1887.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]

I. Our Riches

[Part 2]

II. Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III. Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV. Expropriation

[Part 5]

V. Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V. Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI. Dwellings

VII. Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII. Ways and Means

IX. The Need for Luxury

i. - iii.

[Part 9]

IX. The Need for Luxury

iv. - v.

X. Agreeable Work

[Part 10]

XI. Free Agreement

[Part 11 – This Week]

XII. Objections

i. - 00:44

ii. - 11:55

iii. - 21:12

[Part 12?]

XII. Objections – iv

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 13?]

XIV. Consumption and Production

XV. The Division of Labour

[Part 14?]

XVI. The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 15?]

XVII. Agriculture

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin. 

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5]

V.  Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V.  Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

    i. - iii.

[Part 9]

IX.  The Need for Luxury

    iv. - v.

X.  Agreeable Work

[Part 10 – This Week]

XI.  Free Agreement

    i. - 00:19

    ii. - 08:24

    iii. - 15:28

[Part 11]

XII.  Objections

[Part 12]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 13?]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 14?]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 15?]

XVII.  Agriculture

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm 

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5]

V.  Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V.  Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

            i. - iii.

[Part 9 – This Week]

IX.  The Need for Luxury

            iv. - 00:31

            v. - 07:26

X.  Agreeable Work

            i. - 15:41

            ii. - 22:26

[Part 10]

XI.  Free Agreement

XII.  Objections

[Part 11?]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12?]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13?]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry 

[Part 14?]

XVII.  Agriculture 

Footnotes:

– 01:21
We know this from Playfair, who mentioned it at Joule's death.

– 24:32
It seems that the Communists of Young Icaria had understood the importance of a free choice in their daily relations apart from work. The ideal of religious Communists has always been to have meals in common; it is by meals in common that early Christians manifested their adhesion to Christianity. Communion is still a vestige of it. Young Icarians had given up this religious tradition. They dined in a common dining room, but at small separate tables, at which they sat according to the attractions of the moment. The Communists of Anama have each their house and dine at home, while taking their provisions at will at the communal stores.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4 – This Week]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5]

V.  Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V.  Food: iv - vii

[Part 7]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8 – This Week]

VIII.  Ways and Means

            i. - 00:23

            ii. - 08:02

IX.  The Need for Luxury

            i. - 17:46

            ii. - 23:39

            iii. - 29:11

[Part 9]

IX.  The Need for Luxury

            iv - v

X.  Agreeable Work

[Part 10]

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 11]

XII.  Objections

[Part 12]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 13]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 14]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 15]

XVII.  Agriculture

Footnote – 28:56

They have already been discovered since the above lines were written

My note on the footnote:

Even more expeditious methods of multiplying thought sure have been discovered.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4 – This Week]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5]

V.  Food: i - iii

[Part 6]

V.  Food: iv - vii

[Part 7 – This Week]

VI.  Dwellings – 00:20

            i. - 00:24

            ii. - 06:30

            iii. - 13:17

VII.  Clothing – 21:40

[Part 8?]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

[Part 9?]

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 10?]

XII.  Objections

[Part 11?]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12?]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13?]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14?]

XVII.  Agriculture

Footnote – 04:20

The decree of the 30 March: by this decree rents due up to the terms of October, 1870, and January and April, 1871, were annulled.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5]

V.  Food

            i. - iii
[Part 6 - This Week]

V. Food

            iv. - 00:48

            v. - 10:50

            vi. - 16:59

            vii. - 24:58

[Part 7]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

[Part 9]

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 10]

XII.  Objections

[Part 11]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14]

XVII.  Agriculture

Footnote – 15:25

No fallacy more harmful has ever been spread than the fallacy of a "One-day Revolution," which is propagated in superficial Socialist pamphlets speaking of the Revolution of the 18th of March at Berlin, supposed (which is absolutely wrong) to have given Prussia its representative Government. We saw well the harm made by such fallacies in Russia in 1905-1907. The truth is that up to 1871 Prussia, like Russia of the present day, had a scrap of paper which could be described as a "Constitution," but it had no representative Government. The Ministry imposed upon the nation, up till 1870, the budget it chose to propose.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4]

IV.  Expropriation

[Part 5 - This Week]

V.  Food

            i. - 0:34

            ii. - 7:40

            iii. - 14:44

[Part 6]

V. Food

            iv. - vii.

[Part 7]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

[Part 9]

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 10]

XII.  Objections

[Part 11]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14]

XVII.  Agriculture

Footnote – 10:18

The municipal debt of Paris amounted in 1904 to 2,266,579,100 francs, and the charges for it were 121,000,000 francs.

This week’s reading is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

The full book is available online here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23428/23428-h/23428-h.htm

[Part 1]
I.  Our Riches

[Part 2]

II.  Well-Being for All

[Part 3]

III.  Anarchist Communism

[Part 4 – This Week]

IV.  Expropriation

            i – 00:44

            ii – 07:18

            iii – 17:00

[Part 5-6?]

V.  Food

[Part 7?]

VI.  Dwellings

VII.  Clothing

[Part 8?]

VIII.  Ways and Means

IX.  The Need for Luxury

[Part 9?]

X.  Agreeable Work

XI.  Free Agreement

[Part 10?]

XII.  Objections

[Part 11?]

XIII.  The Collectivist Wages System

[Part 12?]

XIV.  Consumption and Production

XV.  The Division of Labour

[Part 13?]

XVI.  The Decentralization of Industry

[Part 14?]

XVII.  Agriculture

Footnote – 06:41

"Shabble of a Duke" is an expression coined by Carlyle; it is a somewhat free rendering of Kropotkine's "Monsieur le Vicomte," but I think it expresses his meaning.—Trans.