ABSTRACT
The anarcho-communist economic critique of capitalism and the market differed little from that of the state socialists. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century-two thinkers in Britain dominated discussion of the theory and practice of anarcho-communism. The first was William Morris and the second, Kropotkin whose 'theory of the 'free commune' offered one of the strongest theoretical foundations for the English communities in the late nineteenth century'. The essentials of Kropotkin's anarcho-communism, the essence of his major works, were, therefore, available to English readers before the turn of the century and it is with two of these, The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Farms and Workshops that this short postscript is primarily concerned. Kropotkin's decentralised communism differed from that of the early nineteenth century communitarians in terms of the scale upon which it was conceived.
