Peter Kropotkin

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Peter Kropotkin was a Russian geographer, revolutionary, and leading theorist of anarcho-communism whose writings profoundly shaped libertarian socialist thought.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf anarchist
geographer
human
political philosopher
revolutionary
writer
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
dateOfBirth 1842-12-09
dateOfDeath 1921-02-08
familyName Kropotkin
fieldOfWork evolutionary theory
geography
political philosophy
social theory
fullName Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
givenName Pyotr
ideology anarchism
anti-authoritarianism
communism
influenced anarchist communism
anti-capitalist movements
libertarian socialism
social ecology
influencedBy Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Mikhail Bakunin
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
knownFor advocacy of decentralised federations
advocacy of voluntary cooperation
critique of the state
theory of anarcho-communism
theory of mutual aid
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
Russian
memberOf Russian nobility
movement anarcho-communism
libertarian socialism
mutual aid theory
social anarchism
nativeLanguage Russian
nobleTitle prince
notableWork Fields, Factories and Workshops
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
The Conquest of Bread
The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793
occupation essayist
geographer
political theorist
revolutionary activist
participatedIn Russian revolutionary movement
placeOfBirth Moscow
Russian Empire
placeOfDeath Dmitrov
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
positionOn advocated stateless communism
opposed to capitalism
opposed to the state
supported workers’ self-management


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