“Peter Kropotkin…was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds…of the nineteenth century…The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartedness into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.”

Emma Goldman

An Appeal to the Young

The Police and Property

The police keep the “peace,” but they also enforce the fiction of property: the idea that there are a few people who own everything — the masters — while everyone else owns nothing — the slaves. Property is a concept so unnatural that it requires the use of force to exist: hence the…

Chapter 1

There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was…

The Day Before the Revolution

My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn’t get into the action — except implicitly…