Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
9-2002
Abstract
Kropotkin's history of the French Revolution has a revealing chapter on anarchists. 1 Kropotkin notes that they were greatly feared by both the Girondins and the Jacobins, and they dominated many key moments of action and deliberation in the Revolution. Yet they left behind little direct trace, except in the pamphlets of others in which they were attacked. And Kropotkin's great history enacts this presence. Anarchists are given only one short chapter, but they are present as a force in every scene. They were the people willing to make revolution at every turn, "even against themselves." These anarchists were precisely, in Kropotkin's history, both the movement and limits of the French Revolution.
Discipline
Arts and Humanities
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Social Text
Volume
20
Issue
3
ISSN
0164-2472
Identifier
10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-9
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
HARNEY, Stephen Matthias.
Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani. (2002). Social Text. 20, (3),.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5439
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-3_72-9