ABSTRACT
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, Peter Kropotkin whose ‘theory of the “free commune” offered one of the strongest theoretical foundations for the English communities in the late nineteenth century’ 1 . Articles by Kropotkin on anarchism, in English, began appearing as early as 1884. The essays which comprised Fields, Farms and Workshops were published in Nineteenth Century in the 1890s as were those which appeared as Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution in 1902. Also a number of chapters of The Conquest of Bread were published in the 1880s in Freedom which was in fact founded in 1886 by a group centred around Kropotkin. 2 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.
