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Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921)

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin ( / k r oʊ ˈ p ɒ t k ɪ n , k r ə - / ; [9] Russian : Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian geographer , economist, activist, philologist , zoologist , evolutionary theorist , philosopher, writer, and prominent anarchist . Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops , and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution . He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition . [From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin ]

Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921)

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin ( Russian : Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian zoologist , evolutionary theorist , philosopher , scientist , revolutionary , philologist , economist , activist , geographer , writer , and prominent anarcho-communist . Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops , and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution . He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition . [ 3 ] [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin ]

From Kafka's Diaries

     21 August. Today I got Kierkegaard's  Buch des Richters . As I suspected, his case, despite essential differences, is very similar to mine, at least he is on the same side of the world. *** This excerpt follows on a letter drafted to the father of Felice Bauer (explaining why Kafka shouldn't marry: "A marriage could  not change me, just as my job cannot change me"): 30 August. Where am I to find salvation? How many untruths I no longer even knew about will be brought to the surface. If they are going to pervade our marriage as they pervaded the good-bye, then I have certainly done the right thing. In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure. *** In despair. Today, in the half-asleep during the afternoon: In the end the pain will really burst my head. And at the temples. What I saw when I pictured this to myself was really a gunshot wound, but around the hole the jagged edges...