Leftist Reading: The Conquest of Bread, Part 14

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]

XIII. The Collectivist Wages System: iv.

XIV. Consumption and Production: i. - ii.

[Part 14 – This Week]

XV. The Division of Labour – 0:19

XVI. The Decentralization of Industry

i. – 8:00

ii. – 19:03

iii. – 23:26

[Part 15-16?]

XVII. Agriculture

Footnote – 7:58

A fuller development of these ideas will be found in my book, Fields, Factories, and Workshops,

published by Messrs. Thomas Nelson and Sons in their popular series in 1912.