Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight's episode of the bore you to sleep podcast is going to come from a book by Peter Kropotkin.

The book is called The Conquest of Bread and it was written in 1906.

Hopefully you enjoy it and it makes you feel sleepy. And if you do, please jump into the podcast

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Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, author of Fields, Factories and Workshops,

the memoirs of a revolutionist, etc. The preface of the book.

One of the current objections to communism and socialism altogether is that the idea is so old, and yet it has never been realized.

Schemes of ideal states haunted the thinkers of ancient Greece.

Later on, the early Christians joined in communist groups.

Centuries later, large communist brotherhoods

came into existence during the Reform Movement.

Then the same ideals were revived during the Great English and French revolutions.

And finally, quite lately, in 1848, a revolution inspired to a great extent with socialist ideals took place in France and yet you see we are told

how far away is still the realization of your schemes Don't you think that there is some fundamental error

in your understanding of human nature and its needs?

At first sight, this objection seems very serious.

However, the moment we consider human history more attentively, it loses its strength.

We see, first, that hundreds of millions of men have succeeded in maintaining amongst themselves

in their village communities for many hundreds of years, one of the main elements of socialism, the common ownership of the

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