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does anyone know what the hell it means in Japanese though?
like, I wondered if it meant "legend of the 108 runes" or something
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A leading anarchist theorist in the nineteenth century, author of classics such as "Mutual Aid", "Factories, Fields and Workshops" and "The State: Its Historic Role". Most of his works are out of copyright and are available online at the Anarchy Archives at dward.pitzer.au.
Kropotkin was an anthropologist by profession, and this is shown by frequent references to this science in his work. "Mutual Aid" is in large part an attempt to rebut Darwinist arguments for the necessity of individualist egoistic action by demonstrating that mutually supportive, cooperative and altruistic actions are common among animals and in human societies. Kropotkin seemed to think that cooperation is part of human nature, so pervasive it is across different cultures and so resilient it is to attacks by the state.
He viewed the state as a force of atomisation because of its tendency to persecute specific associations. He saw it operating in an imperialistic way, colonising everyday life from above and outside and counterposing itself to the force of society and sociability as an everyday factor. The state is based on violence and control, and hierarchic forms and unnatural and oppressive. The state should therefore be overthrown or overcome, and replaced with social relations based on mutual voluntary cooperation in a series of federated associations.
His thought is best located within anarcho-communism. Although dated in some respects, it still holds up as a critique of sociobiology and of theories of the necessity of state power.
I don't know how it could come to mean "a stupid person" - I assume this is a Slavophobe appropriation of this rather amusing-sounding Russian name.
Kropotkin's Mutual Aid is a classic text of anarchist theory.
Anti-capitalist groups often unknowingly adopt a model of organisation similar to Kropotkin's, favouring small-scale voluntary groups which come together into larger federations for purposes of mutual support.
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A large green reptilian monster, often used as a commander of Giak units in the armies of the Darklords in the world of Magnamund (Joe Dever's Lone Wolf). Native to the Maakenmire swamp, and with a frighteningly high Combat Skill (i.e. nearly impossible to beat without cheating).
You see a gourgaz coming towards you. Do you want to:
1. run away (recommended)
2. fight it (you're on something, aren't you?)
3. use your Kai Discipline of Running Away
4. run away even faster
5. faint
turn to page 165 (you're dead anyway).
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Creature related to an ent, mentioned but never encountered in Lord of the Rings. The Entwives tended flowers in what is now the Brown Lands, whereas the Ents preferred the forests. A confusing idea - did ents and entwives produce little acorns? In which case, are they really one species, instead of two? And how did they manage it, if one lot lives in plains and the other in forests?
I always wanted to know what happened to the entwives and hoped they would turn up later in the book, but they didn't. Bugger.
Where the hell did the entwives go?
I've not seen him in three days - he's as elusive as an entwife.
You should tie up your loose ends - you don't want to leave entwives lying around.
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An area in the world of Magnamund, located between Sommerlund and Durenor. The area is mostly desert and deserted, except for the port town of Ragadorn, a haven for outlaws and pirates. Another small settlement, Gorn Cove, is near the border with Durenor. The map in Lone Wolf 19: Wolf's Bane also shows some tiny villages located along the coast. There are also some small towns towards the south of the Wildlands, but these may technically be in Sommerlund.
Ragadorn is technically listed as the capital, although this is a largely inaccurate term. As well as humans (mostly travellers and renegades), the Wildlands are home to szall, a weaker type of Giak which were driven from the Darklands by the better-known Mountain Giaks (now simply called Giaks).
The traveller got lost in the Wildlands and was slain by bandits.
A Kai Lord with the proficiency of Hunting is about the only person able to survive unaided in the Wildlands.
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Indian name for a cacelorazo or "noisy protest". The specific Indian variant involves noisily confronting and "mobbing" a political or administrative figure. Used mainly as a verb.
Protesters gheraoed the chief minister at his home yesterday in ongoing agitation over the privatisation of local services.
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where something is, well fuckin amazin
thats a rude car over there
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