How long does it take to read The Conquest of Bread?
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin takes about 4 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1892. 222 pages, about 61,050 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 151 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Conquest of Bread, written in French by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin and first published in 1892, examines the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, which he argues depend on poverty and scarcity. He holds that every product springs from the shared labor of past and present generations, so everyone has a right to well-being. Kropotkin blames the state's defense of private property for blocking that right. He envisions a decentralized society built on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, where abundant production and short working days meet everyone's needs, luxuries included.
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Subjects: History, Communism, Anarchism, Anarchism and anarchists, Anarchists, Communism and ecology
