Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition

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Kropotkin has been celebrated as the most accessible and coherent of the classical anarchists. In this book, Ruth Kinna provides a new interpretation of Kropotkin, removing his ideas from the 'classical' tradition and situating them in a critique of classical anarchism. By looking at his collaborations with other leading writers in the movement, Kinna shows how Kropotkin understood anarchist traditions while revealing how the Russian revolutionary movement shaped his anarchist, communist politics. This analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin’s thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology. Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Portrait of the anarchist as an old man, Chapter 1: Out with the old, in with the new, Chapter 2: From new anarchism to postanarchism, Conclusion to part 1 Part 2: Coming Out of Russia, Introduction (A Beautiful White Christ) coming out of Russia, Chapter 3: Nihilism, Chapter 4: Mapping the state, Conclusion to part 2 Part 3: Revolution and Evolution, Introduction to Part 3: The general idea of anarchy, Chapter 5: Anarchism: utopian and scientific , Chapter 6: The revolution will not be historicised, Conclusion to part 3 Conclusion Bibliography