A Seemingly Unlikely Pair...
I stumbled upon an interesting and entertaining piece of information in one of my readings today. It is as follows:
“Peter Kropotkin, a Russian Prince who settled and wrote in England from 1878 onwards, proposed a form of Anarchist Communism whereby state governance would be replaced with collective free agreements.”
Whew! Break me off a piece of that, Kropotkin. Because seriously, if there’s an attainable utopia in which anarchists can find themselves “freely agreeing” on something, I so want in (times a thousand).
I might be wrong here when I say that the whole point of anarchism is agreeing on nothing and having no community; that anarchists having “free argreements” is like saying communism doesn’t neccessarily “deplore” the bourgeois, but rather, sees it as a class with “room for improvement” and “for all its downfalls, is still a fairly likeable bunch, that throws a good and unexclusive party now and then when the occassion calls for it.”
Either way, I think the Russian Prince is on to something with this proposal.
Discuss.
7 months ago