The Conquest of bread: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Conquest of bread, credited to Peter Kropotkin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The conquest of bread by Peter Kropotkin. Read by Enko. In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they create poverty and scarcity while promoting privilege. He goes on to propose a more decentralised economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organisation already exist, both in evolution and in human society. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Conquest of bread
• Author credits: Peter Kropotkin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 6:46:01

Catalogue topics

• kropotkin
• politics
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 14:28
2. 01 - Our riches — 19:46
3. 02 - Well-being for all — 21:06
4. 03 - Anarchist communism — 20:31
5. 04 - Expropriation — 23:29
6. 05 - Food — 48:12
7. 06 - Dwellings — 19:41
8. 07 - Clothing — 5:45
9. 08 - Ways and means — 14:25
10. 09 - The need for luxury — 27:05
11. 10 - Agreeable work — 15:44
12. 11 - Free agreement — 28:16
13. 12 - Objections — 34:24
14. 13 - The collectivist wages system — 29:13
15. 14 - Consumption and production — 13:11
16. 15 - The division of labour — 6:29
17. 16 - The decentralization of industry — 19:56
18. 17 - Agriculture — 44:31

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