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Portrait of Peter Kropotkin

Long 19th c. · 1842–1921

Who influenced Peter Kropotkin?

Influences

Anarchist prince who answered Darwin's struggle with mutual aid.

Peter Kropotkin was influenced by Mikhail Bakunin. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Peter Kropotkin?

Born into an aristocratic family, Peter Kropotkin served as an army officer in Siberia and took part in geological expeditions there. Jailed for his activism in 1874, he escaped two years later and spent 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France, where he served nearly four years in prison, and England. He returned to Russia after the 1917 revolution and was disappointed by the Bolshevik state.

He argued for a decentralised communist society without central government, built on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. His best-known books are The Conquest of Bread (1892) and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) was his main scientific work. He also wrote the article on anarchism for the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Peter Kropotkin?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Peter Kropotkin

The longest documented line of influence ending at Peter Kropotkin runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Ludwig Feuerbach
  25. Karl Marx
  26. Mikhail Bakunin
  27. Peter Kropotkin

Two steps away from Peter Kropotkin

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Peter Kropotkin

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Peter Kropotkin, with no direct line between them.

Peter Kropotkin by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
95
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
81 — #17 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Peter Kropotkin

Who influenced Peter Kropotkin?
Mikhail Bakunin.
Who did Peter Kropotkin influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Peter Kropotkin.
When did Peter Kropotkin live?
1842–1921. The map files Peter Kropotkin under the long 19th century.
How rare is the Peter Kropotkin card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Peter Kropotkin in 81 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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