The Hilaritas podcast on Kropotkin

 

I finally got around to listening to last month's Hilaritas podcast, in which Mike Gathers interviews anarchist writer and activist Wayne Price about Peter Kropotkin, the prominent Russian anarchist. I've posted the YouTube version above for your convenience, but the official website has useful links and offers suggestions on where to get the podcast. 

The podcast, about an hour long, features Price explaining Kropotkin's ideas and discussing anarchism in general. As Mike explains, Kropotkin's article about anarchism for Encyclopedia Brittanica is credited with sparking RAW's interest in anarchism. 

There's no discussion in the podcast about RAW's views on anarchism or about Illuminatus! coauthor Robert Shea, who published an anarchist zine, No Governor. 

This month's podcast, scheduled for release on Feb. 23, will continue the discussion of anarchist ideas by featuring an interview with John Zerzan. 

I've listened to all of the Hilaritas podcasts, but if you are new to them,  you can look at the podcast page and get started by finding one that has a topic of interest to you. 

New Hilaritas Press podcast on Kropotkin released

 Monday was the 23rd, and so the monthly Hilaritas Press podcast was released. This one features anarchist writer Wayne Price, and the episode is devoted to Peter Kropotkin, who according to Wikipedia  "was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activist who advocated anarcho-communism." Mike Gathers is the interviewer and host, as with the other episodes. 

As usual, there are links at the official host site for those who want to learn more. I recognized one of the links -- it's an interview I posted in 2011, of RAW being interviewed by New Libertarian Notes, which I acquired via Jesse Walker and Mike himself, as I note in the introduction. It's an interesting interview which sheds light on RAW's then-views on libertarianism.