Kropotkin Industries

My name is Aleks Kropotkin and I started Kropotkin Industries to embody the values shared by my distant ancestor, Peter Kropotkin. He wanted people to have access to the means of production, but died before his vision could be made real in the world. My goal is to finish what he started, to help everyone achieve the basic sustenance of daily bread and pursue their happiness knowing that they are not ever at risk of starvation or homelessness.

We don't need to seize the means of production to make this vision a reality, we just need to seed the means of production with good people who are interested in mutual aid and shared prosperity. If you are a person who wants to start working with others to provide something useful to your community and need help, send a message to aleks at kropotkin dot org.

Peter Kropotkin was a pioneer of mutual aid economics and anarchist thinking.

We have chosen his name for our project to create an organic system of mutual aid that uses the tools modern society has provided to create the “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” envisioned by Aaron Bastani.

This is an educational experiment in mutual aid economics, sponsored by a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit to develop free market solutions to social problems like hunger and homelessness through the creation of a universal basic safety net accessible to anyone who chooses to participate.

We will also lean heavily on Balaji Srinivasan's “The Network State” to test his theories in the world as it exists now and prove that it can be accessible to everyone, not just those who are already rich and powerful.

As the project moves forward, we will create opportunities for full participation in the system that we are creating. It is our intent to do our work in as open a way as possible to provide greater value back than was received and to have all interactions be voluntary and peaceful.

Our commitment to individualism means that the entire system starts with a person making choices about how to use their time and resources for the benefit of themselves or others.