{"id":720,"date":"2025-04-03T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:55:13","slug":"historical-cherry-picking-and-non-arguments-the-conquest-of-bread-chapter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Historical Cherry-Picking and Non-Arguments: The Conquest of Bread, Chapter 3"},"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-3%3A7?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Chapter 3 of the book is titled &#8220;Anarcho-Communism,&#8221; so I was expecting to finally get Kropotkin&#8217;s great argument for how to establish communes without a state apparatus forming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What I got was a series of weird historical cherry-picking and declarations pretending to be arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Detailed notes available <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ch-3.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He makes a bunch of declarations that he pretends are arguments. He grabs isolated examples of state-funded research organizations that barely existed for a blip of history. He makes the New Soviet Man argument. He mistakes instances of momentary cooperation in non-productive situations for evidence that perpetual parasitism will be both economically insignificant and socially acceptable. He even confuses the existence of special prices as evidence of conquest of scarcity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He even brings up something practically identical to Marx&#8217;s idiotic historical determinism, but somehow manages to be even less convincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Unfortunately, this pretty much confirms that Kropotkin&#8217;s conception of anarchism is largely held together by mistakes and inappropriate hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And supposedly he&#8217;s going to justify expropriation in the next chapter. Yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/conquest-of-conquest-of-bread-3:7\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k4CyyUTYGlY\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/IZP3b9AplVrc\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Jo Ann Cavallo, &#8220;Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli&#8217;s Italy&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/feudalism-and-cronyism-machiavellis-italy\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/feudalism-and-cronyism-machiavellis-italy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Murray N. Rothbard, &#8220;Man, Economy, and State&#8221; Discussion on Discounted Marginal Value Product (DMVP)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market\/7-production-general-pricing-factors\/1-imputation-discounted-marginal-value-product\">https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market\/7-production-general-pricing-factors\/1-imputation-discounted-marginal-value-product<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rothbard, &#8220;The Progressive Era&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/progressive-era\">https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/progressive-era<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music edited from a piece by Grand Project, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/grand_project-19033897\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/grand_project-19033897\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 3 of the book is titled &#8220;Anarcho-Communism,&#8221; so I was expecting to finally get Kropotkin&#8217;s great argument for how to establish communes without a state apparatus forming. What I got was a series of weird historical cherry-picking and declarations pretending to be arguments. 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