Peter Kropotkin (Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin) was a Russian
anarchist philosopher and writer who advocated
anarcho-communism. Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralised
communist society free from central
government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He wrote many
books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, but also Mutual Aid: A Factor of
Evolution, his principal scientific offering.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian
revolutionary anarchist, socialist, and founder of collectivist
anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of
anarchism and a major founder of the
revolutionary socialist and social anarchist tradition. Bakunin's prestige as a
revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in
Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout
Russia and
Europe. Bakunin's collectivist
anarchism advocates the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production. Instead, it envisions the means of production being owned collectively and controlled and managed by the producers themselves.
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Bakunin is remembered as a major figure in the history of
anarchism, an opponent of Marxism, especially of the
dictatorship of the
proletariat, and for his predictions that Marxist regimes would be one-party dictatorships. Bakunin continues to influence anarchists such as
Noam Chomsky, and Bakunin has had a significant influence on thinkers such as
Peter Kropotkin,
Errico Malatesta, as well as
syndicalist organizations such as the Wobblies, the anarchists in the Spanish Civil
War, and contemporary anarchists involved in the modern-day anti-
globalization movement.
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