5850 Kropotkin's Critique of Capitalism! Part 4

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This lecture examines Peter Kropotkin's assertion that production is a social endeavor, emphasizing the complexity of quantifying individual contributions within collective efforts like coal mining. The speaker explores themes of labor rights, the implications of ownership, and the interplay between personal initiative and market dynamics. Kropotkin's critiques of private ownership and production for profit are addressed, highlighting the tension between individual expertise and collective systems. The lecture argues for the necessity of recognizing personal contributions within economic frameworks, challenging the feasibility of Kropotkin's vision of a society without personal property.

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0:00.0	all right well good afternoon
0:02.9	actually it's good evening
0:04.5	and we're going to just do
0:07.0	Kropotkin part four where are we at here
0:09.5	maybe I'll get through it maybe I won't
0:10.9	production is social this is a continuing
0:13.3	series on examining
0:15.8	why it is that people believe
0:20.3	the socialist stuff production is social social. Production, he writes,
0:23.7	or this is an article about Rupon production, production is not carried out by isolated individuals
0:28.7	whose economic contribution can be isolated from that of each other workers, so that its value
0:34.7	can be determined. Okay, not carried about isolating individuals.
0:40.7	Right.
0:41.1	So if you've got 100 people working on a car who should get paid what?
0:44.2	That's fair.
0:45.2	To illustrate this, Krapotkin turned to coal mining.
0:48.2	At the time, miners worked either individually or in gangs,
0:51.7	at the coal face and were paid peace rate.
0:54.1	In today's coal mines,
0:55.6	of course, the issue of individual production would never arise. Quote from Kropotkin,
1:00.7	one man controls the lift, continually rushing the cage from level to level so men and coal may be
1:06.5	moved about. If he relaxes his concentration, for an instant the apparatus will be destroyed. Many men killed and his work brought to a standstill. If he relaxes his concentration, for an instant, the apparatus will be destroyed. Many men
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