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120 lines
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<title>The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin</title>
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content="One of the current objections to Communism, and Socialism altogether, is that the idea is so old, and yet it has
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never been realized.">
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<div class="note">This is a demo of the <a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/">Fediverse
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Share Button</a> project. Try it out at the bottom of
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this page.</div>
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<header>
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<h1>The Conquest of Bread</h1>
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<p>by <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23428">Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin</a></p>
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<article style="max-width: 900px;">
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<p>One of the current objections to Communism, and Socialism altogether, is that the idea is so old, and yet it has
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never been realized. Schemes of ideal States haunted the thinkers of Ancient Greece; later on, the early
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Christians joined in communist groups; centuries later, large communist brotherhoods came into existence during
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the Reform movement. Then, the same ideals were revived during the great English and French Revolutions; and
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finally, quite lately, in 1848, a revolution, inspired to a great extent with Socialist ideals, took place in
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France. "And yet, you see," we are told, "how far away is still the realization of your schemes. Don't you think
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that there is some fundamental error in your understanding of human nature and its needs?"</p>
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<p>At first sight this objection seems very serious. However, the moment we consider human history more attentively,
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it loses its strength. We see, first, that hundreds of millions of men have succeeded in maintaining amongst
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themselves, in their village communities, for many hundreds of years, one of the main elements of Socialism—the
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common ownership of the chief instrument of production, the land, and the apportionment of the same according to
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the labour capacities of the different families; and we learn that if the communal possession of the land has been
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destroyed in Western Europe, it was not from within, but from without, by the governments which created a land
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monopoly in favour of the nobility and the middle classes. We learn, moreover, that the medieval cities succeeded
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in maintaining in their midst, for several centuries in succession, a certain socialized organization of
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production and trade; that these centuries were periods of a rapid intellectual, industrial, and artistic
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progress; while the decay of these communal institutions came mainly from the incapacity of men of combining the
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village with the city, the peasant with the citizen, so as jointly to oppose the growth of the military states,
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which destroyed the free cities.</p>
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<p>The history of mankind, thus understood, does not offer, then, an argument against Communism. It appears, on the
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contrary, as a succession of endeavours to realize some sort of communist organization, endeavours which were
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crowned here and there with a partial success of a certain duration; and all we are authorized to conclude is,
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that mankind has not yet found the proper form for combining, on communistic principles, agriculture with a
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suddenly developed industry and a rapidly growing international trade. The latter appears especially as a
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disturbing element, since it is no longer individuals only, or cities, that enrich themselves by distant commerce
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and export; but whole nations grow rich at the cost of those nations which lag behind in their industrial
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development.</p>
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</article>
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<p class="explainer d-block mt-4 mb-3">Try it here ⤵</p>
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<label>Share this page from your fediverse server</label>
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