The Conquest of Bread

Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left

On this week's episode, LET'S GET THAT BREAD. We have not just one but two returning guests on the show to help us do just that. Comrades Courtney and Jordan return to the library to discuss the classic of anarcho-communist theory, The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin.

We keep this one a bit more loose than our usual format as we talk about some of Kropotkin's ideas of what an anarcho-communist society would look like, the question of human nature, BioShock, the Unabomber, Monty Python, and lots more. We also discuss a lot about anarcho-communism in general and what it offers the Left in terms of organizing and political vision.

Further Reading/References

• Pyotr Kropotkin
• The Conquest of Bread Summary
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Summary
• Charles Fourier
• Phalanstere
• The Libertarian Experiment in Van Ormy, TX
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail Teaches Us about Anarcho-Communism
• Know Your Meme! - Google Murray Bookchin
• Murray Bookchin
• Rojava
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman
• Summary of The Island by Aldous Huxley
• Vercingetorix
• "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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