10 Wednesday Feb 2016
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“Life in societies is no exception in the animal world; it is the rule, the law of Nature, and it reaches its fullest development with the higher vertebrates”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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31 Sunday Jan 2016
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“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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14 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Who would sell his labour power for less than it is capable of bringing in if he were not forced thereto by the threat of hunger?”.
Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
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17 Thursday Dec 2015
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“Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic”.
Peter Kropotkin, The Spirit of Revolt
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16 Monday Nov 2015
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“We know well the means by which this association of lord, priest, merchant, judge, soldier, and king founded its domination. It was by the annihilation of all free unions: of village communities, guilds, trades unions, fraternities and medieval cities. It was by confiscating the land of the communes and the riches of the guilds. It was by the absolute and ferocious prohibition of all kinds of free agreement between men. It was by massacre, the wheel, the gibbet, the sword, and the fire that church and State established their domination and that they succeeded henceforth to reign over an incoherent agglomeration of ‘subjects’ who had no more direct union among themselves”.
Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
27 Tuesday Oct 2015
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“For ages and ages mankind lived without any written law, even that graved in symbols upon the entrance stones of a temple. During that period, human relations were simply regulated by customs, habits and usages, made sacred by constant repetition, and acquired by each person in childhood, exactly as he learned how to obtain his food by hunting, cattle-rearing or agriculture”.
Peter Kropotkin, Law and Authority
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03 Saturday Oct 2015
“Even such harsh animals as the rats, which continually fight in our cellars, are sufficiently intelligent not to quarrel when they plunder our larders, but to aid one another in their plundering expeditions and migrations, and even to feed their invalids”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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02 Wednesday Sep 2015
“‘Don’t compete! – competition is always injurious to the species and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!’ That is the tendency of nature, not always realized in full, but always present. That is the watchword that comes to us from the bush, the forest, the river, the ocean. ‘Therefore combine – practise mutual aid! That is the surest means for giving to each and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual, and moral’. That is what Nature teaches us; and that is what all those animals which have attained the highest position in their respective classes have done”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
27 Thursday Aug 2015
“Sociability and need of mutual aid and support are such inherent parts of human nature that at no time of history can we discover men living in small isolated families, fighting each other for the means of subsistence”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
16 Tuesday Jun 2015
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“The mediaeval cities were not organized upon some preconceived plan in obedience to the will of an outside legislator. Each of them was a natural growth in the full sense of the word – an always varying result of struggle between various forces which adjusted and re-adjusted themselves in conformity with their relative energies, the chances of their conflicts, and the support they found in their surroundings”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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