Peter Kropotkin 
Direct Struggle Against Capital [EPUB ebook] 
A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Table of Contents

Direct Struggle Against Capital

-A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Introduction, by Iain Mc Kay

PART I: Anarchism and Anarchists

From Memoirs of a Revolutionist

• St. Petersburg – First Journey to Western Europe

• Western Europe

The Lyons anarchist trial of 1883 (Freedom, first time in book)

• From Kropotkin’s Defence Speech

• Defence Declaration

-The Place of Anarchism in Socialist Evolution (first time in book)

-Preface to Bakunin’s The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State (Newly translated)

-Letter to Maria Isidine Goldsmith (Newly translated)

-Letter to Max Nettlau (New translation, different translation in Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution)

-Anarchism (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets)

• The Historical Development of Anarchism

• Anarchism in the International Working Men’s Association

From Modern Science and Anarchism

• The Origin of Anarchism

• The Anarchist Ideal and the Preceding Revolutions

• Anarchism

• A Few Conclusions of Anarchism

• The Means of Action

-The Anarchist Principle (Newly translated)

-A Few Thoughts about the Essence of Anarchism (Freedom, first time in book)

-Letter to the Bakunin Centenary Celebration (Freedom, first time in book)

-From Ethics: Origin and Development

-Capitalism and the State

-From Representative Government (New translation, Words of a Rebel)

-Our Riches (Conquest of Bread)

-The Division of Labour (Conquest of Bread)

-Economic Expedients (Newly translated)

-From The State: Its Historic Role

-Prisons: Universities of Crime (Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth)

-From The Modern State (Freedom, first time in book)

• I. The Essential Principle of Modern Society

• II. Serfs of the State

• III. Taxation as a Means of Increasing the Power of the State

• IV. Taxation a Means of Enriching the Rich

• V. The Monopolies

• VI. The Monopolies in the Nineteenth Century

PART II: The Workers Movement and Class Struggle

From Memoirs of a Revolutionist

-Enemies of the People (Newly translated)

-The Workers’ Movement in Spain (Newly translated)

-Workers Organisation (Newly translated)

-The Use of the Strike (Freedom, first time in book)

-Strikes (Newly translated)

-1st May 1891 (Newly translated)

-Letter to French and British Trade Union Delegates (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Death of the New International (Newly translated)

-Commemoration of the Chicago Martyrs (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Workers’ Congress of 1896 (Newly translated)

-The Development of Trade-Unionism (Freedom, first time in book)

-From Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

• Mutual Aid Amongst Ourselves

• Conclusion

-Politics and Socialism (Freedom pamphlet, first time in book)

-Trade Unionism and Parliamentarism (Newly translated)

-Letter to “The Voice of Labour” (The Voice of Labour, first time in book)

-Anarchists and Trade Unions (Freedom, first time in book)

-1886-1907: Glimpses into the Labour Movement in this Country (Act for Yourselves)

-Letter to Alexander Berkman (Freedom, first time in book)

-Syndicalism and Anarchism (Freedom, first time in book)

PART III: Revolutions

From The Great French Revolution

• Action

• The “Districts” and the “Sections” of Paris

• The Sections of Paris under the New Municipal Law

-1848–1871 (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Paris Commune (Fighting the Revolution volume 2; first time in book)

• The theory of the State and the practice of the Commune

• Popular aspirations and popular prejudices in the Commune

• From the Paris Commune to anarchist communism

-Commune of Paris (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Revolution in Russia (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Russian Revolution and Anarchism (Newly translated)

• Political and economic revolution

• Our relation with peasants and workers’ unions

• Conclusions of the conference

-Enough of Illusions! (Freedom, first time in book)

-A Letter to the Workers of the West (Freedom, original English language version)

-Social Revolution

-From Memoirs of a Revolutionist

-The Anarchist Idea from the Point Of View of its Practical Realisation (Freedom, first time in book; another translation appears in No Gods, No Masters)

-Revolutionary Government (Words of a Rebel; translation from No Gods, No Masters)

-From Expropriation (Conquest of Bread)

-What Revolution Means (Act for Yourselves)

-Act For Yourselves (Act for Yourselves)

-Local Action (Act for Yourselves)

-Preface to Words of a Rebel (1904) (first time in book)

-Insurrections and Revolution (Newly translated)

-Preface to How We Shall Bring About the Revolution

-Anarchist Action in the Revolution (Newly translated)

-Postscript to Words of a Rebel (1919) (first time in book)

-Anarchy

-The Commune (Words of a Rebel; translation from No Gods, No Masters)

-From In Russian and French Prisons

-Are We Good Enough? (Act for Yourselves)

-The Permanence of Society after the Revolution (Act for Yourselves)

-The Wage System (Conquest of Bread)

• I. Representative Government and Wages

• II. The Collectivist Wage System

• III. Unequal Remuneration

• IV. Equal Wages versus Communism

-Communism and Anarchy (Freedom, first time in book)

-The Reformed School (Freedom, first time in book)

-From Fields, Factories and Workshops

• Preface to the Second Edition (1913)

• Preface to the First Edition (1898)

• The Decentralisation of Industries

• The Possibilities of Agriculture

• Small Industries and Industrial Villages

• Brain Work and Manual Work

• Conclusion

Appendix:

-Mutual Aid: An Important Factor in Evolution (Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth)

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Iain Mc Kay: Iain Mckay is a Scottish writer, activist, and public intellectual. He has edited the books
An Anarchist FAQ (volumes 1 & 2) and
Property Is Theft: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology. He is a former editor of
Black Flag magazine and frequent contributor to
Freedom.

Peter Kropotkin: Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian prince who became one of anarchism’s most famous thinkers. His classic works include
Conquest of Bread; Fields, Factories and Workshops; Memoirs of a Revolutionist; and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.