Publisher's Synopsis
In the essay "The moral of the beginning of anarchism" Kropotkin, starting from the idea of natural biological origins of morality, arguing that the main principle of anarchism is precisely the "principle of commanding unto others as myself want to do to you." "To act according to this principle" has become a habit. Without this principle, the very existence of society is impossible, "- wrote Kropotkin. In Russian, this work was first published in 1906, was subsequently used by the author as lecture material and was included in a collection of" anarchy. "