{"id":703,"date":"2025-03-21T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:49:03","slug":"the-conquest-of-the-conquest-of-bread-preface-and-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"The Conquest of The Conquest of Bread: Preface and Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fconquest-of-the-conquest-of-bread%3Ae?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to the first episode of my examination of Peter Kropotkin&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.22768\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">&#8220;The Conquest of Bread.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Episode notes can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/preface-and-ch-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/conquest-of-the-conquest-of-bread:e\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oAxzPXot1lo\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/scUS3Ducdmw3\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Kropotkin is a prominent example of the so-called anarchist strain of communists, which believed that social revolution would lead to the abolishment of private property in the means of production, further leading to a stateless method of organization through communes and labor associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The preface and first chapter, however, do not begin by explaining how to enforce the abolishment of private property without a coercive state. Kropotkin instead decides to open his book with a combination of bad economics, misread history, blindness to incentives, rhetorical flourish, and misunderstanding stemming from over-aggregation of the capital structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It isn&#8217;t a good start, but we&#8217;ll see where he goes from here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cited articles:<br>Ludwig von Mises, &#8220;The Rise of Capitalism&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/rise-capitalism\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/rise-capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lipton Matthews, &#8220;The Problem with Guilds: They&#8217;re Monopolistic and Wasteful&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/problem-guilds-theyre-monopolistic-and-wasteful\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/problem-guilds-theyre-monopolistic-and-wasteful<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Robert P. Murphy, &#8220;Why Austrians Stress Ordinal Utility&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-austrians-stress-ordinal-utility\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-austrians-stress-ordinal-utility<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Murray N. Rothbard, &#8220;Ten Great Economic Myths&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/ten-great-economic-myths\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/ten-great-economic-myths<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ludwig von Mises, &#8220;Planned Chaos&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/planned-chaos\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/planned-chaos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Friedrich A. Hayek, &#8220;The Use of Knowledge in Society&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/use-knowledge-society\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/use-knowledge-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music edited from a piece by Paul Yudin, courtesy Unsplash:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/paulyudin-27739282\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/paulyudin-27739282\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first episode of my examination of Peter Kropotkin&#8217;s book &#8220;The Conquest of Bread.&#8221; Episode notes can be found here. This video can be found on Odysee, YouTube, and BitChute. 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