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🗓️ 9 November 2020
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On Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892).
If we want an egalitarian society, do we need the state to accomplish this? Kropotkin says no, that in fact the state inevitably serves the interests of the few, and that if we got rid of it, our natural tendencies to cooperate would allow us through voluntary organizations to keep everyone not only fed and clothed, but able to vigorously pursue callings like science and art.
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0:00.0 | You were listening to the Parsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys where at one point |
0:11.2 | said I'm doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it. |
0:14.2 | Our question for episode 256 is something like what's the relationship between egalitarianism |
0:19.6 | and the state and we read Peter Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread from 1892. |
0:24.8 | For more information please visit ParsleyExam in Life.com. |
0:28.1 | This is Mark Linson-Mire participating in this voluntary association of podcasters in |
0:32.3 | Madison, Wisconsin. |
0:33.7 | This is Seth Pascon experiencing the white terror where blood is flowing like water and the |
0:38.8 | guillotine is never idle in Austin, Texas. |
0:42.2 | This is Wesau on for whom idleness is a supreme ideal in Warranton, Virginia, in a mansion. |
0:49.2 | This is Dylan Casey wondering about agrarian commons and whether or not it is the right |
0:55.7 | basis for our collectivism in Madison, Wisconsin. |
0:59.6 | And I aborat, I come from a communist state here to put in my words of how we have no |
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1:09.0 | This has been long requested. |
1:10.3 | We have quite an anarchist following on this podcast. |
1:13.3 | I think maybe the whole I'm going to get knowledge straight from the ether rather than from |
1:19.4 | the man. |
1:20.4 | There's something that's appealing to anarchists. |
1:22.2 | Maybe anarchism and podcasting go together. |
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1:28.2 | anarchism committee is kind of closed and at least one person who wrote to us said they'd |
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