"In this collection of essays, Kropotkin excels in his grasp of the state, its dynamics, and the social relations out of which it emerges, dovetailed with his radical vision for libertarian egalitarian social change. Including an informative foreword by Brian Morris on the great anarchist's colourful life, and Kropotkin's own extended analysis of the origins of anarchism, the book goes to the core of what makes Kropotkin's work so stimulating: he is peculiarly capable, through detailed historical accounts and discussions of his own times, of somehow speaking to our own contemporary dilemmas and challenges."
–Anthony Ince, coeditor of Historical Geographies of Anarchism
"This is one of the most excellent introductions to anarchism, putting paid to the usual objections to the system, synonymous as it has become, wrongly, with disorganisation and chaos."
–Workers Solidarity