United State’s Soft Power Turning Mushy
The delusion of liberal democracy's universal appeal has seen better days. The idea that undeniably desirable Western universal values would take root across the planet was a fool's hope. Liberal…
Milan Djurasovic
Unfortunate Set of Circumstances
It was a cloudy Sunday morning and Vesna was cooking up a storm for her two colleagues from work. All three of them were immigrants from Eastern Europe with similar…
Reconciling Mutual Aid With Revolutionary Violence: The Case of Peter Kropotkin
An American evolutionary biologist and historian of science, Stephen J. Gould, wrote the following in his essay titled “Kropotkin Was No Crackpot”: “More generally, I like to apply a somewhat…
Human Potential: The Case of Peter Kropotkin
“The function of ethics is not even so much to insist upon the defects of man, and to reproach him with his ‘sins,’ as to act in the positive direction, by…
Morality: The Lust For Pleasure -The Case of Peter Kropotkin
According to N. Lebedev, Kropotkin’s editor with whom he frequently corresponded both in person and through letters, two central reasons prompted the celebrated anarchist to devote the last years of…
Propaganda By Deed And The Glory Of Self-Sacrifice: The Case of Peter Kropotkin
George Woodcock, a prominent Canadian writer and anarchist thinker, writes that anarchism’s “ultimate aim is always social change; its present attitude is always one of social condemnation, even though…
Anarchist Communism: The Most Moral Organization Of Society?
Introduction Prince Peter A. Kropotkin (1842-1921), second only to Mikhail A. Bakunin among the Russian anarchist philosophers in terms of popularity and influence on the anarchist communist thought, authored a…
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