Kropotkin’s second chapter is a doozy. He makes a variety of really bad extrapolations, a bunch of incredibly ignorant anti-economic points, and then goes on to demand total expropriation of all goods, both capital and consumption, “private” and personal.
He bases this mostly on floppy definitions of “need” and “live,” as well as the usual incorrigible envy that motivates most actual socialists and communists.
Even worse, the next chapter is supposedly his argument for “anarchic” communism, but considering how he simply papered over the confiscation of all goods with some utopian nonsense, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a good argument, because it doesn’t look like one is coming.
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Articles/Books of Interest:
Peter Kropotkin, “The Conquest of Bread”
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22768/page/n5/mode/2up
Ludwig von Mises, “Economics and the Revolt against Reason”
https://mises.org/mises-daily/economics-and-revolt-against-reason
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Difference Between the Market and Bureaucracy”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/difference-between-market-and-bureaucracy
Ryan McMaken, “Socialism, not US sanctions, ruined the Venezuelan economy”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/socialism-not-us-sanctions-ruined-venezuelan-economy
Henry Higgs, “Higgs on the Influence of the Physiocrats”
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/higgs-on-the-influence-of-the-physiocrats
Murray N. Rothbard, “An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought”
(c.f. Vol. 1, Ch. 13)
https://mises.org/library/book/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought
Walter Block, “Defending the Undefendable, Chapter 24: The Middleman”
https://mises.org/podcasts/defending-undefendable/24-middleman
Per Bylund, “Why ‘Social’ Entrepreneurship Is No Substitute for ‘Market’ Entrepreneurship”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-social-entrepreneurship-no-substitute-market-entrepreneurship
Ralph Raico, “Trotsky: The Ignorance and the Evil”
https://mises.org/mises-daily/trotsky-ignorance-and-evil
Murray N. Rothbard, “Man, Economy, and State” (c.f. Chapter 10)
https://mises.org/online-book/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market/10-monopoly-and-competition/2-cartels-and-their-consequences
Ryan McMaken, “Why Luxury Goods Make Everyone Better Off”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-luxury-goods-make-everyone-better
Henry Hazlitt, “Private Ownership: A Must”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/private-ownership-must
Ludwig von Mises, “Human Action” (c.f. Ch. 21)
https://mises.org/online-book/human-action/chapter-xxi-work-and-wages/7-supply-labor-affected-disutility-labor
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