At The Cafe5 Mai 2022

ACG Reading Group: The Conquest of Bread

We have selected the first three chapters of Petr Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread for the reading group because it tries to envisage what an anarchist communist society would look like.

Kropotkin wrote The Conquest of Bread to systematically explain the essential ideas of anarchist-communism. It was a watershed moment in anarchist history since it was the first time that a completed and in-depth theoretical work of anarchist-communist theory was available to the public.Throughout the first three chapters, Kropotkin constructs an argument for the common ownership of all intellectual and useful property due to the collective work that went into creating it. Kropotkin does not argue that the product of a worker's labour should belong to the worker but asserts that every individual product is essentially the work of everyone since every individual relies on the intellectual and physical labour of those who came before them as well as those who built the world around them. Because of this, Kropotkin proclaims that every human deserves an essential right to well-being because every human contributes to the collective social product.

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Episoder(42)

ACG Public Meeting The Beautiful Idea: Why we need anarchist communism now

We are going through an unprecedented time of human history, in which even the future of the planet is at stake. This was not inevitable. It is the result of the systems that have been brutally impose...

8 Apr 20241h 6min

Anti-Nationalism, War and Militarism

Public Discussion Meeting hosted by the ACG.

26 Feb 20241h 11min

Cost of Living Discussion Meeting

This is a complete and unedited recording of a public discussion meeting held in June 2022 by the ACG on the cost of living.

28 Jul 20231h 19min

Land and Liberty

This is a podcast of our pamphlet Land and Liberty- arguing the case for building movement for land justice as part of a general revolutionary movement for anarchist communism.

28 Jul 202314min

Nick Heath, ACG member and author of The Idea, talks at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair along with academic Ruth Kinna on 'Building for Anarchism'

Nick Heath talks about anarchist communism and how this current is the main way forward for building a well-organised, revolutionary, working class anarchist movement.

15 Jun 202346min

Public Meeting: Launch of Two Landmark Books

Recently two important books on anarchist communism have appeared. They both seek to reclaim the tradition of anarchist communism, and both have been written by veterans of the anarchist communist mov...

22 Nov 202249min

The Idea - Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future

Dale Walford spoke to anarchist communist historian, writer and militant Nick Heath about his new book The Idea – Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future. The book is being published in May 2022...

1 Mai 202217min