It’s no surprise to discover that anarchist theorist Pyotr Kropotkin was interested in Christmas. In Russian culture, St. Nicholas (Николай Чудотворец) was revered as a defender of the oppressed, the ...

Meanwhile, the Russian aristocrat and geographer Peter Kropotkin had a slightly different take. He was swayed to anarchism after visiting a group of self-governing Swiss watchmakers. Now that’s ...

Scott’s ambivalence to the state was, in fact, shared by at least one founder of anarchist thought. Kropotkin himself was a ...