The Conquest of
The Conquest of Bread,
Chapters 5-9
We’re speedrunning these chapters of Kropotkin’s book because they’re basically repetitions of the same mistakes and fallacies again and again, only applied to different types of goods.
Full show notes here.
Kropotkin “covers” food, dwellings, clothing, capital goods, and luxury goods in these five chapters, and the result is a mess of Utopian hopefulness, perverse incentives, long-debunked economic fallacies, and a bizarre fascination with inventory lists.
Without belaboring the point, suffice it to say that Kropotkin’s ignorance of basic economics shines through very brightly in these five chapters.
No sources this time, either–just basic economics and praxeology.
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Intro music edited from a piece called “Just a Regular Day,” author unspecified, courtesy Pixabay.
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