Vegito901

This has changed my views on politics. Many people see contradictions where they’re not: you can have a phone and be an anarchist, a communist, a socialist or working in a cooperative. There’s no problem in buying stuff with the money you earn from your work. Being anarchist/communist doesn’t imply to live in austerity but rather the opposite. There’s another point that a fellow reader didn’t got. There’s some work that is necessary like agriculture, cleaning, building and so on, and in this book Kropotkin says that with good organisation and a thing or two more, these real jobs would take 4-5 hours a day, and the rest of the day people could do whatever they loved the most. Reading, being teachers, engineers, doctors, musicians, whatever. We don’t need money to do whatever we love the most, people love art, people love helping others and solving problems. Have you ever worked a 9-5? Most of the people in the world do, some do even more than that. It feels like your whole life is your job and that you don’t have the time to do nothing more. What Kropotkin is trying to say is “why don’t we build a society where we end misery, war, where we distribute the work according to the needs and not greed?”. That is all! Before hearing what the “critics” have to say, I’d recommend to read the full book. Many things can be nuanced and the context has to be taken in account: people used to work 15 hours a day in their hideous job which almost always killed them. Sincerely, it has kinda changed the way I see the world and it has the ability to do something that seemed impossible: imagine a world after capitalism. A very human book, very easy to read and understand, even if you don’t agree with Piotr’s ideas I’d still recommend to read it.