Frasi di Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin
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Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin, in russo: Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин? , è stato un filosofo, geografo, zoologo, militante e teorico dell'anarchia russo.

Libertario, fautore di un'analisi sociologica e di una proposta poggiata su basi scientifiche dell'evoluzione sociale nelle comunità umane, con una propaganda fondata sui fatti, è stato uno dei primi sostenitori dell'anarco-comunismo. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Novembre 1842 – 8. Febbraio 1921
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“Tutto quello che possiamo fare è dare un consiglio, aggiungendo: "Questo consiglio avrà valore soltanto se tu riconoscerai da solo, con l'esperienza e con l'osservazione, che è buono da seguire."”

La morale anarchica
Variante: Tutto quello che possiamo fare è dare un consiglio, aggiungendo: "Questo consiglio avrà valore soltanto se tu riconoscerai da solo, con l'esperienza e con l'osservazione, che è buono da seguire".

Frasi sulla vita di Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin

Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin Frasi e Citazioni

“Colui che viene governato, ingannato, sfruttato, prostituito, ferisce in primo luogo il nostro sentimento di uguaglianza. Ed è in nome di esso che non vogliamo più né prostitute, né sfruttati, né ingannati, né governati. Ci si obietterà "Ma se la pensate così, con quale diritto farete uso della forza, qualunque sia la circostanza? Con che diritto punterete i cannoni contro i barbari o contro i civili che invadono il vostro paese? Con che diritto caccerete lo sfruttatore? Con che diritto ucciderete non tanto un tiranno, quanto una semplice vipera?" Con quale diritto? Ma cosa intendete con questa parola barocca, presa a prestito dalla legge? Mi state chiedendo se mi sentirei nel giusto avendo agito in tale modo? Se coloro che io stimo giudicheranno bene quel che ho fatto? Questo volete sapere? In tal caso la risposta è semplice. Sì, certamente! Perché noi chiediamo di essere uccisi, come bestie velenose, qualora ci rendessimo colpevoli di un'invasione nel Tonchino o presso gli Zulù che non ci hanno fatto nulla di male. Noi diciamo ai nostri figli, ai mostri amici: "Uccidimi se mi metto dalla parte degli invasori!". Sì, certamente! Perché noi chiediamo di essere cacciati, se un giorno, rinnegando i nostri princìpi, ci impadronissimo di un'eredità – foss'anche caduta dal cielo*usandola per sfruttare gli altri. Sì, certamente! Perché ogni uomo di cuore chiederebbe di essere ucciso se mai diventasse vipera, e che gli venisse conficcato un pugnale nel cuore nel caso prendesse il posto di un tiranno detronizzato.”

La morale anarchica

Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin: Frasi in inglese

“Men who long for freedom begin the attempt to obtain it by entreating their masters to be kind enough to protect them by modifying the laws which these masters themselves have created!
But times and tempers are changed.”

Origine: Law and Authority (1886), I
Contesto: Men who long for freedom begin the attempt to obtain it by entreating their masters to be kind enough to protect them by modifying the laws which these masters themselves have created!
But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.
The critics analyze the sources of law, and find there either a god, product of the terrors of the savage, and stupid, paltry, and malicious as the priests who vouch for its supernatural origin, or else, bloodshed, conquest by fire and sword. They study the characteristics of law, and instead of perpetual growth corresponding to that of the human race, they find its distinctive trait to be immobility, a tendency to crystallize what should be modified and developed day by day.

“Indifference from this point on is impossible.”

The Spirit of Revolt (1880)
Contesto: Whoever has a slight knowledge of history and a fairly clear head knows perfectly well from the beginning that theoretical propaganda for revolution will necessarily express itself in action long before the theoreticians have decided that the moment to act has come. Nevertheless, the cautious theoreticians are angry at these madmen, they excommunicate them, they anathematize them. But the madmen win sympathy, the mass of the people secretly applaud their courage, and they find imitators. In proportion as the pioneers go to fill the jails and the penal colonies, others continue their work; acts of illegal protest, of revolt, of vengeance, multiply.
Indifference from this point on is impossible. Those who at the beginning never so much as asked what the "madmen" wanted, are compelled to think about them, to discuss their ideas, to take sides for or against. By actions which compel general attention, the new idea seeps into people's minds and wins converts. One such act may, in a few days, make more propaganda than thousands of pamphlets.
Above all, it awakens the spirit of revolt: it breeds daring. The old order, supported by the police, the magistrates, the gendarmes and the soldiers, appeared unshakable, like the old fortress of the Bastille, which also appeared impregnable to the eyes of the unarmed people gathered beneath its high walls equipped with loaded cannon. But soon it became apparent that the established order has not the force one had supposed.

“She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.”

Anarchist Morality http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/AM/anarchist_moralitytc.html (1890)
Contesto: The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested — rulers, lawyers, clerics — have carefully enwound her.
She shatters the chains. She subjects to severe criticism all that has been taught her, and lays bare the emptiness of the religious political, legal, and social prejudices amid which she has vegetated. She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.
But the inveterate enemies of thought — the government, the lawgiver, and the priest — soon recover from their defeat. By degrees they gather together their scattered forces, and remodel their faith and their code of laws to adapt them to the new needs.

“To begin with, if man, since his origin, has always lived in societies, the State is but one of the forms of social life, quite recent as far as regards European societies.”

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Contesto: To begin with, if man, since his origin, has always lived in societies, the State is but one of the forms of social life, quite recent as far as regards European societies. Men lived thousands of years before the first States were constituted; Greece and Rome existed for centuries before the Macedonian and Roman Empires were built up, and for us modern Europeans the centralized States date but from the sixteenth century. It was only then, after the defeat of the free mediæval Communes had been completed that the mutual insurance company between military, judicial, landlord, and capitalist authority which we call "State," could be fully established.

“You know how I always believe in the future … Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.”

Letter to a friend (November 1920), as quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 428

“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.”

Origine: "Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26

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