David Graeber taught anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the international best-selling author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, Mute, and the New Left Review. One of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, Graeber has been called an “anti-leader of the movement” by Bloomberg Businessweek. The Atlantic wrote that he “has come to represent the Occupy Wall Street message . . . expressing the group’s theory, and its founding principles, in a way that truly elucidated some of the things people have questioned about it.”
In loving memory of our friend, comrade, and mentor…David Graeber
Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution
SKU: 9781629638744
Contributors: Peter Kropotkin • Illustrated by N.O. Bonzo • Introduction by David Graeber & Andrej Grubacic • Foreword by Ruth Kinna • Preface by GATS • Afterword by Alan Antliff
Series: PM Press/Kairos
ISBN: 9781629638744/
9781629638751
Published: 5/2021
Format: Paperback/Hardcover
Size: 8.5×11
Pages: 240
Subjects: Anarchism
Praise
“N.O. Bonzo has created a rare document, updating Kropotkin’s anarchist classic Mutual Aid,
by intertwining compelling imagery with an updated text. Filled with
illustrious examples, their art gives the words and histories, past and
present, resonance for new generations to seed flowers of cooperation to
push through the concrete of resistance to show liberatory
possibilities for collective futures.”
—scott crow, author of Black Flags and Windmills and Setting Sights
“Taking aim at both Social Darwinists and Romantic dreamers,
Kropotkin’s classic text makes plain that the promise of liberation
arises from our collective instinct to cooperate. In this new edition,
lovingly illuminated by N.O. Bonzo, we can see the powerful amplifying
effect of mutual aid firsthand.”
—AK Thompson, author of Black Bloc, White Riot
“The turn of the century world that inspired Kropotkin to write Mutual Aid
may seem very distant to the readers of the 21st century. Yet the
principles of reciprocal support that he and his comrades advocated have
taken on a new significance in our era of austerity, isolation, climate
crisis, and pandemic. With a fantastic stroke of transhistorical
artistic wizardry, N.O. Bonzo simultaneously conjures up and re-imagines
the visionary aesthetics of the early twentieth century anarchist
movement to make Kropotkin’s appeal for cooperation feel as urgent as
ever.”
—Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader
“The illustrations in this new edition of Mutual Aid do justice to Kropotkin the polymath and to his magnum opus.”
—Lee Dugatkin, author of The Prince of Evolution
“This version of Mutual Aid beautifully illustrates what
‘mutual aid’ is all about! The cooperation evident on the pages between
Kropotkin and N.O. Bonzo illuminates that the more we mutually support
each other, the more we not only survive but also thrive—and soar to new
heights of care and solidarity.”
—Cindy Milstein, coauthor of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism
december, 2024
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