Words Of A Rebel
Peter Kropotkin

Translated, with introduction, by George Woodcock

First published in 1885 in Paris, this collection of articles constitutes Kropotkin’s first book. Originally titled Paroles d’un Revolté, it includes his earliest works from period 1879 to 1882. In the succeeding years it was translated into Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Russian, and Chinese. Long-awaited in English, Words of a Rebel is the first complete translation.

A different work from the more familiar books of the older Kropotkin, it is a product of an anarchist agitator and it derives its interest as much from what it reveals about an important transitional phase in the development of anarchism as it does for what it shows us of Kropotkin himself.

Seeing revolution as a popular insurrection, in the broadest terms, Kropotkin believed that public wealth should belong to its producers and consumers and not to the State or the rich.

This volume of Kropotkin’s articles was translated from the French by George Woodcock. A celebrated author, Woodcock is also an authority on the life and works of Peter Kropotkin and as a result, Words of a Rebel is not just a translation, but a scholarly work as well.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by George Woodcock
• Introduction to the First French Edition by Elisée Reclus
• I. The Situation Today
• II. The Breakdown of the State
• III. The Inevitability of Revolution
• IV. The Coming Revolution
• V. Political Rights
• VI. To the Young
• VII. War
• VIII. Revolutionary Minorities
• IX. Order
• X. The Commune
• XI. The Paris Commune
• XII. The Agrarian Question
• XIII. Representative Government
• XIV. Law and Authority
• XV. Revolutionary Government
• XVI. All of Us Socialists!
• XVII. The Spirit of Revolt
• XVIII. Theory and Practice
• XIX. Expropriation
• Notes

240 pages; 1992

Part of our Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin
ISSN: 1188-5807

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