Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Peter Kropotkin, 1899
A prince trained as a geographer gives up court, career and inheritance to organize with workers — and reports on power from both sides of the wall.
Peter Kropotkin
1842–1921
Born a prince of the Rurikid line, Kropotkin served as a page to the tsar, mapped Siberia as a geologist, and escaped from a tsarist prison in 1876.
Feels like freedom, curiosity and power.
The cost, in someone else's bread, of a life of the mind.
But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a mouldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children? From somebody’s mouth it must be taken, because the aggregate production of mankind remains still so low. Books by Peter Kropotkin
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