# Ruth Kinna

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Peter Kropotkin: an interview with Professor Ruth Kinna

Pyotr or Peter Kropotkin was one of the foundational thinkers of anarchism, giving us for instance the concept of 'mutual aid'. Professor Ruth Kinna has authored multiple books about Kropotkin and anarchism in general. We discussed Kropotkin's life, ideas and relevance today. I found it fascinati‮…

Essay #100: Ruth Kinna, ‘Mutual Aid: What It Is and What It Is Not’

This essay is adapted from Jim Donaghey's excellent collection, Fight for a New Normal? Anarchism and Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis . It discusses some of the applications of 'mutual aid' in government agencies and its articulation in nineteenth century anarchist thought to flesh out ‮…

Who's Afraid of Anarchy? The Russian Revolution, Spanish Anarchy, Punks, and Today with Ruth Kinna

In Part 2, Ruth Kinna and I trace anarchism’s turbulent path through the 20th century—from early revolutionary violence to its erasure under Lenin, the Spanish Civil War, and the Red Scare in America. As anarchism was eclipsed by state communism and crushed by authoritarian forces, its ideas never‮…

Who's Afraid of Anarchy? Part 1: From Proudhon to The Brink of War with Ruth Kinna

In this conversation, I sit down with Ruth Kinna, historian of anarchism and professor of political theory, to explore the roots of anarchist thought—from Proudhon’s challenge to property to Bakunin’s clash with Marx to Kropotkin’s vision of anarchist communism. But first, we confront the towering‮…

165. Politics in Hollywood Westerns-- Ruth Kinna

Happy 4th Anniversary to Everyday Anarchism! For this year's anniversary episode, Ruth Kinna comes on to talk about a couple of Hollywood Westerns: Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948) and Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, 1952). Hollywood Westerns are about law and order, violence and vigilantism, communit‮…

S10E4 - Anarchism, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Politics

Episode overview Episode 4 turns to anarchism as a lens for rethinking disasters, governance, and collective action. Through a rich conversation grounded in political theory, history, and pacifism, the episode explores how anarchist ideas—particularly mutual aid, nonviolence, and suspicion of cent‮…

Essay #114: Ruth Kinna & Simon Stevens, ‘Anarchism: War, Violence and Scapegoating’

In this essay, Ruth Kinna and Simon Stevens discuss their article Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating - an analysis of power, violence and government irresponsibility. They talk about issues that inspired the article and the central claim, namely that violence does not turn solely on its per‮…

Emma Goldman: life of the week

Anarchist, feminist, revolutionary: 19th-century activist and writer Emma Goldman emigrated from the Russian empire to the United States as a teenager, and spent decades challenging power and convention. In this episode, Ruth Kinna tells Danny Bird about Goldman's extraordinary story – which inter‮…

What is Anarchism? | Prof. Ruth Kinna

In this episode, Professor Ruth Kinna and I explore anarchism, mutual aid, self-government, and anti-authoritarian political thought. We discuss what anarchism means, its history and major thinkers, including Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin. We also examine property, violence, revolutionary change‮…

201. Five Years of Everyday Anarchism! -- Ruth Kinna

Ruth Kinna joins me for the Fifth Anniversary Episodes! First, an announcement: I wrote a book to be published by PM Press introducing everyday anarchism. No publication date yet, so more later on that front! Ruth and I discuss just what anarchy and anarchism is, and why anarchy is actually always‮…