Kropotkin

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Peter Kropotkin 1842-1921

A Russian living much of his youth in Siberia, Kropotkin became one of the leading anarchist revolutionaries. He studied and wrote in Switzerland and then returned to Russia where he was arrested multiple times for organizing workers' groups. Kropotkin identified anarchy not as a survival of the fittest struggle but rather as an altruistic solidarity of mutual cooperation.

Kropotkin and the anarchists were critical of the bourgiousie but distrustful of the bureaucratic organization proposed by the communists. Kropotkin believed that revolution was inevitable and that this revolution should be carried out first by the peasants without recognizing a governmental or political party. The primary goal of Kropotkin's idea of revolution--like many of his contemporaries--was the expropriation of land and property from the wealthy.