Kropotkin

In 1887 Peter Kropotkin stayed briefly in the Swiss Jura fiefdom of the watchmaking industry and epicentre of the international anarchist movement He would retain a strong impression of his encounter with the highly organised local workers whose equalitarian relationships and independent thought he would praise in his diary 140 years after the conversion of this man who was to theorise libertarian communism a little later on Cyril Schäublin restages fragments of this diary read in Russian in the current setting A place in which his ancestors who worked from generation to generation in the watchmaking manufactures of this region until their closure still survive