{"id":804,"date":"2025-05-22T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:37:02","slug":"railing-against-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Railing Against Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Conquest of <em>The Conquest of Bread<\/em>, Chapters 14 &amp; 15<\/h2>\n\n\n\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-14-15%3Ae?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">These two chapters are both very short. First, Kropotkin argues that economic calculation or understanding should start with what people need, and then move on to production. Oddly enough, he has a bit of a point here, but unfortunately, he carries it off into one of his bizarre and flatly wrong tangents again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He ends up arguing that the division of labor is destructive to prosperity. He wanders off in a couple of weird directions that are clearly counter to reality, but that fact doesn&#8217;t stop him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ch-14-15.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-14-15:e\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hip-0dkQgck\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/m5flpI84BWtZ\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This episode&#8217;s intro quote is from a talk by Shawn Ritenour:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7bP4Mw3uk1A\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7bP4Mw3uk1A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music by MFCC, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/mfcc-28627740\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/mfcc-28627740\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">References:<br>Mises, Human Action:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/human-action\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/human-action<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My article containing intros to Mises&#8217;s Calculation Problem, Hayek&#8217;s Knowledge Problem, and the concept of Pareto-Superiorty:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/mmt-feeding-economically-inferior-machine\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/mmt-feeding-economically-inferior-machine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Mises, Money, Method, and the Market Process:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/money-method-and-market-process\/trade\/10-autarky-and-its-consequences\">https:\/\/mises.org\/online-book\/money-method-and-market-process\/trade\/10-autarky-and-its-consequences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hoppe, Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/marxist-and-austrian-class-analysis\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/marxist-and-austrian-class-analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conquest of The Conquest of Bread, Chapters 14 &amp; 15 These two chapters are both very short. First, Kropotkin argues that economic calculation or understanding should start with what people need, and then move on to production. Oddly enough, he has a bit of a point here, but unfortunately, he carries it off into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,82,2],"tags":[144,245,246,37,86,60,19,243,85,199,244,202],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-philosophy","category-video-link","tag-anarchism","tag-anarchocommunism","tag-critique","tag-economics","tag-freedom","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-peter-kropotkin","tag-philosophy","tag-study-guide","tag-the-conquest-of-bread","tag-voluntaryism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ch-14-15-thumbnail.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}