Modern Science and Anarchism
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- English
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- Complete work
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- Extent:
- ~59,400 words · 282 passages
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- APAPeter Kropotkin. (n.d.). Modern Science and Anarchism. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/modern-science-and-anarchism
- MLAPeter Kropotkin. "Modern Science and Anarchism." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/modern-science-and-anarchism.
- ChicagoPeter Kropotkin. Modern Science and Anarchism. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/modern-science-and-anarchism.
What it is about
Modern Science and Anarchism (1901): anarchism as a scientific conclusion.
Context and history
Kropotkin argues that anarchism is not a moral ideal but what comes out of studying nature and history with the method of the sciences. It is the piece that separates him from Bakunin: where one shouted, the other brought data.
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Anarchy does not draw its origin from any .scientific researches, or from any system of philosophy. Sociological sciences are still far from having acquired the same degree of accuracy as physics or chemistry. Even in the study of climate and weather (in Meteorology), we are not yet able to predict a month or even a week beforehand what weather we are going to have ; consequently, it would be foolish to pretend that with the aid of such a young science as Sociology is, dealing moreover with infinitely more complicated things than wind and rain, we could scientifically predict events. We must not forget either that scientific men are but ordinary men, and that the majority of them belong to the leisured class, and consequently share the prejudices of this class ; most of them are even in the pay of the State. It is, therefore, quite evident that Anarchy does not come from universities.
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