Mertcan Bulak
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With Kropotkin anarchism develops into its most developed form in the nineteenth century. Even those who are generally hostile to anarchism single out Kropotkin as worth reading. He not only tried to base his anarchist philosophy on the findings of science, but to demonstrate its validity by appealing to existing trends within society.
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When Kropoktin died in February 1921, the Bolshevik government offered a State funeral, but his family refused. As it happened, his funeral proved to be the last great anarchist demonstration in Russia, for later that year the movement was crushed. Although the house where he was born became the Kropotkin Museum, it was closed down in 1938.
Russia had become a Soviet Republic only in name, Kropotkin warned prophetically: ‘at present it is not the Soviets which rule in Russia but the party committees’; and if the situation were to continue ‘the very word “socialism” will become a curse, as happened in France with the idea of equality for forty years after the rule of the Jacobins’.
At the all-party State Conference in Moscow in August 1917, Kropotkin called for a federal republic in Russia and a renewed offensive against Germany. But when the Bolsheviks seized power in November, he commented prophetically: ‘This buries the revolution.’
Kropotkin looked to new mechanical devices and communal domestic services to liberate women from household drudgery; if not, ‘half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half.’ He was delighted to hear of the invention of the washing machine, for example.
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