Modern Science and Anarchy
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Modern Science and Anarchy

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Modern Science and Anarchy

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This was Peter Kropotkin's final book, in which he theorizes about the development of the modern state and how modern science and technology can assist in freeing working people from capitalism. First published in 1912 in France, sections of this book have been translated and published in English (as short books and pamphlets and journal articles), but never as a whole work as Kropotkin intended. More than 10 percent of this book has never before appeared in English. Introduced and annotated by Iain McKay.

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Table of contents

  1. Modern Science and Anarchy
  2. Introduction: Reality has a well-known libertarian bias
  3. Modern Science and Anarchy A Publication History
  4. Further Reading
  5. Notes on the text
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Advance praise
  8. Modern Science and Anarchy
  9. Preface
  10. Part I: Modern Science and Anarchy
  11. I: The Origins of Anarchy
  12. II: The Intellectual Movement of the Eighteenth Century
  13. III: The Reaction at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  14. IV: Comte’s Positive Philosophy
  15. V: The Awakening in the Years 1856–1862
  16. VI: Spencer’s Synthetic Philosophy
  17. VII: The Role of Law in Society
  18. VIII: The Position of Anarchy in Modern Science
  19. IX: The Anarchist Ideal and Previous Revolutions
  20. X: Anarchy
  21. XI: Anarchy (continued)
  22. XII: Anarchy (continued)
  23. XIII: Anarchy (continued)
  24. XIV: Some Conclusions of Anarchy
  25. XV: The Means of Action
  26. XVI: Conclusion
  27. Part II: Communism and Anarchy
  28. I: Anarchist Communism
  29. II: Authoritarian Communism– Communist Communities
  30. III: Small Communist Communities–Causes of Their Failures
  31. IV: Does Communism Imply the Diminishing of the Individual?
  32. Part III: The State: Its Historic Role
  33. The State Its Historic Role
  34. Part IV: The Modern State
  35. I: The Essential Principle of Modern Societies
  36. II: Serfs of the State
  37. III: Taxation: A Means of Creating the Powers of the State
  38. IV: Taxation: A Means of Enriching the Wealthy
  39. V: Monopolies
  40. VI: Monopolies in the Nineteenth Century
  41. VII: Monopolies in constitutional England–In Germany–Kings of the Era
  42. VIII: War
  43. IX: War and Industry
  44. X: The Essential Characteristics of the State
  45. XI: Can the State Be Used for the Emancipation of the Workers?
  46. XII: The Modern Constitutional State
  47. XIII: Is it Sensible to Strengthen the Current State?
  48. XIV: Conclusions
  49. Part V: Appendices
  50. I: Explanatory Notes
  51. II: Herbert Spencer: His Philosophy
  52. Supplementary Material
  53. Charles Darwin
  54. Anarchy: Its Philosophy, Its Ideal
  55. Co-operation: A Reply to Herbert Spencer
  56. Letter to Comradeship
  57. Organised Vengeance Called Justice
  58. The State: Creator of Monopolies
  59. Index
  60. Copyright
  61. Friends of AK