Peter Kropotkin

• Book

  Mutual Aid 1902
• Fundamental to human survival

  from the animal kingdom and human history to refute social Darwinism arguments

  argues that cooperation and mutual aid for evolutionary success
• states distorts

  state is a coercive institution designed to subject the masses to the will of minorities

  distorts our natural instinct to cooperation
• rejected anarcho individualism
• a past revolutionary system will be made up a federal network of voluntary self governing communities of equal individuals, decentralised
• society

  removal of coercive institutions will allow natural society to flourish

  private property to be replaced by common ownership

  free communism

  free federation of communes
• Example of society; The Diggers

  1649

  opposed private property- supported common ownership

  main principle of anarcho communism

  direct democracy

  decentralised power