Open AccessCooperation and Mutual Assistance: The Search for Fundamentals of Building of New Social Relationships (Political and Legal Views of P.A. Kropotkin, Theorist of Russian Anarchism of the Last Quarter of the XIX to the Early XX Century)
Author(s) -
Aleksandr O. Fadeev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
istoriâ gosudarstva i prava
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1812-3805
DOI - 10.18572/1812-3805-2021-2-74-80
Subject(s) - institution , state (computer science) , politics , political science , political philosophy , law , sociology , mutual aid , law and economics , quarter (canadian coin) , government (linguistics) , public administration , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , algorithm , history , linguistics
The article is devoted to the analysis of the institution of cooperation in the teachings of P.A. Kropotkin, who transferred its basic political and legal principles of the device to the concept of anarchism he was developing. Based on the provisions of social reconstruction, put forward by R. Owen, Petr Alekseevich adapted his ideas for his own theory, with its inherent positive and negative features. Kropotkin did not have separate works devoted to cooperation, but he did his best to draw attention to the importance of this institution in rebuilding society on anarchist principles. The basis of cooperation, according to Petr Alekseevich, was customary law, developed by society itself, without state intervention. The result of the study was that the self-government of communes in Kropotkin’s theory of anarchism was based on the principles of the institution of cooperation.