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Questions on Kropotkin and Marx

I've done some reading on Marx but not much on Kropotkin. I know Marx doesn't theorize much on what a communist society would actually look like in his view, (classless, stateless, money-less) and I've heard Kropotkin does theorize what an anarcho-communist society would look like a lot more.

So is there any difference between the two, Kropotkin's interpretation of communism and Marx's interpretation of communism besides getting there in the first place? Do you know what Marx's view on illegitimate hierarchies, i.e. having a boss when one isn't needed in the workplace is? (an example when a boss is needed could be when the boss is more experienced, for example being a pilot and is in charge for safety reasons/takes priority over the copilot).

Also, why specifically does Kropotkin disagree with the Marxian economic analysis of capitalism?

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(P.S. please don't answer if you're not well read on both Marx and Kropotkin. I want an accurate answer, I'm confused enough already lol)
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Marx simply doesn't approach the issue in terms of hierarchies. The issue for him is capital and exploitation. The surplus value of the commodity is taken from the labourer by the capitalist, as to him, all value is derived from labour, in one of the most central parts of Marxism, the Labour Theory of Value (LtV).

Kropotkin disagrees with the LtV - he thinks the best approach to the issue is the outright rejection of value. If a house is built by the labour required to put the bricks and cement and so on together, what about the mining of the stone to make the bricks etc etc - the line simply goes on too long to accept the LtV.

As for Kropotkin's theorising, he talks about specific forms of government - direct democracy, etc. He speaks specifically about how certain things such as agriculture and housing might work in an anarcho-communist society. Marx does not dare to feign such hypotheses.