This was Peter Kropotkin's final book, in which he theorizes about the development of the modern state and how modern science and technology can assist in freeing working people from capitalism. First published in 1912 in France, sections of this book have been translated and published in English (as short books and pamphlets and journal articles), but never as a whole work as Kropotkin intended. More than 10 percent of this book has never before appeared in English. Introduced and annotated by Iain McKay.
"Iain McKay's definitive version of Modern Science and Anarchy is another welcome product of his continuing effort to broaden our understanding of Kropotkin's ideas, recovering texts scattered and forgotten in the course of Kropotkin's transnational activism. More than an exercise in Kropotkiana however, this work offers Kropotkin's most concise exposition of the ideas that defined his life, focus
Matthew Adams, author of Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchis
"Finally, after all these years the definitive edition of Kropotkin's Modern Science and Anarchy. Here we have not only a mature restatement of Kropotkin's anarchist communism, but Kropotkin's own history of anarchist ideas and movements, a survey of libertarian and anarchist currents throughout human history, as Kropotkin describes the perennial struggle between authority and liberty. But that is
Robert Graham, author of We Do Not Fear Anarchy-We Invoke it
"This new, definitive edition of Kropotkin's Modern Science and Anarchy is an important addition to the literature on one of the most influential figures in the development of modern libertarian communism. Iain McKay's introduction is a model of scholarship and succeeds not only in contextualising and explaining Kropotkin's ideas, but also in addressing a number of misunderstandings and misreprese
David Berry, author of A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917 to 1945
