On mutual aid: citing Kropotkin’s use of that phrase (or presumably a Russian phrase so translated) is odd. If my next door neighbor and I help one another out, does that make us followers of Kropotkin? That was a standard move of anti-communists in the ’50s and 60s: to call anyone who agreed with communists on any issue a communist dupe.
La Via Campesina is an umbrella including 180 peasant organizations with a total of 200 million members. All followers of Kropotkin?
The idea of mutual aid comes from anarcho-communist philosopher Peter Kropotkin.
I also don’t think it is accurate that peasant farming is more productive per hectare than capital intensive large scale farms.
On productivity of small farms vs. larger ones see Peter Rosset’s paper at this link https://archive.foodfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PB4-The-Multiple-Functions-and-Benefits-of-Small-Farm-Agriculture_Rosset.pdf.
Also https://grain.org/en/article/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland.
On mutual aid: citing Kropotkin’s use of that phrase (or presumably a Russian phrase so translated) is odd. If my next door neighbor and I help one another out, does that make us followers of Kropotkin? That was a standard move of anti-communists in the ’50s and 60s: to call anyone who agreed with communists on any issue a communist dupe.
La Via Campesina is an umbrella including 180 peasant organizations with a total of 200 million members. All followers of Kropotkin?