{"id":709,"date":"2025-03-25T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:40:28","slug":"the-conquest-of-the-conquest-of-bread-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"The Conquest of The Conquest of Bread: Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fconquest-of-conquest-of-bread-ch-2%3A0?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Kropotkin&#8217;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, &#8220;private&#8221; and personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He bases this mostly on floppy definitions of &#8220;need&#8221; and &#8220;live,&#8221; as well as the usual incorrigible envy that motivates most actual socialists and communists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Even worse, the next chapter is supposedly his argument for &#8220;anarchic&#8221; communism, but considering how he simply papered over the confiscation of all goods with some utopian nonsense, I&#8217;m not going to hold my breath waiting for a good argument, because it doesn&#8217;t look like one is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ch-2.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/conquest-of-conquest-of-bread-ch-2:0\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5vTKsCANrFg\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/IZmIu4qYEogu\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Articles\/Books of Interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Peter Kropotkin, &#8220;The Conquest of Bread&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.22768\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.22768\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ludwig von Mises, &#8220;Economics and the Revolt against Reason&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/economics-and-revolt-against-reason\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/economics-and-revolt-against-reason<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Murray N. Rothbard, &#8220;The Difference Between the Market and Bureaucracy&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/difference-between-market-and-bureaucracy\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/difference-between-market-and-bureaucracy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ryan McMaken, &#8220;Socialism, not US sanctions, ruined the Venezuelan economy&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/socialism-not-us-sanctions-ruined-venezuelan-economy\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/socialism-not-us-sanctions-ruined-venezuelan-economy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Henry Higgs, &#8220;Higgs on the Influence of the Physiocrats&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/higgs-on-the-influence-of-the-physiocrats\">https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/higgs-on-the-influence-of-the-physiocrats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Murray N. Rothbard, &#8220;An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought&#8221;<br>(c.f. Vol. 1, Ch. 13)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/austrian-perspective-history-economic-thought<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Walter Block, &#8220;Defending the Undefendable, Chapter 24: The Middleman&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/podcasts\/defending-undefendable\/24-middleman\">https:\/\/mises.org\/podcasts\/defending-undefendable\/24-middleman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Per Bylund, &#8220;Why &#8216;Social&#8217; Entrepreneurship Is No Substitute for &#8216;Market&#8217; Entrepreneurship&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-social-entrepreneurship-no-substitute-market-entrepreneurship\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-social-entrepreneurship-no-substitute-market-entrepreneurship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ralph Raico, &#8220;Trotsky: The Ignorance and the Evil&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/trotsky-ignorance-and-evil\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/trotsky-ignorance-and-evil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Murray N. Rothbard, &#8220;Man, Economy, and State&#8221; (c.f. Chapter 10)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market\/10-monopoly-and-competition\/2-cartels-and-their-consequences\">https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market\/10-monopoly-and-competition\/2-cartels-and-their-consequences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ryan McMaken, &#8220;Why Luxury Goods Make Everyone Better Off&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-luxury-goods-make-everyone-better\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/why-luxury-goods-make-everyone-better<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Henry Hazlitt, &#8220;Private Ownership: A Must&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/private-ownership-must\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/private-ownership-must<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Ludwig von Mises, &#8220;Human Action&#8221; (c.f. Ch. 21)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/human-action\/chapter-xxi-work-and-wages\/7-supply-labor-affected-disutility-labor\">https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/human-action\/chapter-xxi-work-and-wages\/7-supply-labor-affected-disutility-labor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Intro music based on a track by Praz Khanal<\/strong>, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/prazkhanal-24653570\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/prazkhanal-24653570\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kropotkin&#8217;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, &#8220;private&#8221; and personal. 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