Editing Anarcho-Communism (section)

====Critique of capitalism====
Kropotkin critiqued the fallacies of feudalism and capitalism's economic systems. He believed they created poverty and artificial scarcity and promoted privilege. Alternatively, he proposed a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation. He argued that the tendencies for this kind of organization exist in evolution and human society.

Kropotkin partly disagreed with the Marxist critique of capitalism, including the labor theory of value, believing there was no necessary link between work performed and the values of commodities. His attack on the institution of wage labor was based more on employers' power over employees and not only on extracting surplus value from their labor. Kropotkin claimed this power was made possible by the state's protection of private ownership of productive resources. However, Kropotkin believed the possibility of surplus value was itself the problem, holding that society would still be unjust if the workers of a particular industry kept their surplus to themselves rather than redistributing it for the common good.