https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765648049794105626

  • Babs [she/her]
    hexbear
    31
    4 months ago

    Kropotkin called on anarchists to take sides on WWI against "German aggression". Fortunately most anarchists at the time realized that was dumb as hell and it ruined his reputation for a good while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Sixteen

    • kristina [she/her]
      hexbear
      18
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Guy probably had brainworms about the Napoleonic wars. Still, not nearly as absurd as bakunins takes, kropotkins reasoning did have a grain of truth to it in that the Weimar Republic was highly destabilized and was a toss up for the communists and fascists early on