Dec
21st
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1842: Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin, Russian geographer, biologist and anarchist revolutionary, is born. Kropotkin was the son of Russian nobles but came of age during a period of intellectual upheaval in the country, which had a profound effect on his social and political development. The miserable state of the peasant class especially bothered him, and the failure of the czar to undertake meaningful reforms radicalized him. (via Dec. 21, 1842: Birth of an Anarchist, and Darwin’s Detractor)


