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Kropotkin, born into the Russian nobility, was known as the "Anarchist Prince." He eschewed authority of any kind and, like fellow anarchist Bakunin, advocated spontaneous and communal action to displace the authority of the State. He argued that the principles of 'self-interest" and 'survival of the fittest" were Darwinian distortions of human nature, and that the principle of "mutual aid" was the fundamental drive of human nature and social evolution.

MAJOR WORKS

MUTUAL AID {} THE CONQUEST OF BREAD {} THE STATE: ITS HISTORIC ROLE MODERN SCIENCE AND ANARCHISM

NOTABLE QUOTES

"All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth... All is for all!"

"In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow."

"Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none."

"Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold."

'sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle."

"The two great movements of our century --towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community--are summed up in Anarchist-Communism."

"[U]nless Socialists are prepared openly and avowedly to profess that the satisfaction of the needs of each individual must be their very first aim; unless they have prepared public opinion to establish itself firmly at this standpoint, the people in their next attempt to free themselves will once more suffer a defeat."