To ignore that Kropotkin was a scientist is to ignore his scientific methodology, epistemology, ontology etc and the application of this across his work in both the natural sciences and anarchist social theory. He was committed to providing a scientific basis for anarchism.
“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they display. And yet these fools find other fools who applaud them; for the like-minded always flock together, and besides, the more worthless a thing is, the more it is admired by the majority of people.”
— Erasmus
@NLH2224 I think the problem is that authoritarian leftists aren't far left. They are center-left at best and that's why it's so easy to pull them across the center line to the right.
Kropotkin's day job, which paid the bills so he could produce anarchist theory the rest of the time, was writing articles about the natural sciences for various mainstream publications. He then used this platform to spread anarchist ideas to a larger audience.
The secret bookshelf of Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, full of books about eastern religion, mysticism, telepathy, psychology, and mythology.
(CERN: Wolfgang Pauli Room)
For Schmitt, in Political Theology, it was Bakunin who aimed to propagate Satan and who was consequently "the theologian of the anti-theological and in practice the dictator of an antidictatorship."
The idea that anarchists aren't a threat to the US government is demonstrably false. In its recently released counter-terrorism strategy, the White House categorizes anarchists as a direct threat to national security. It's the only leftist school of thought named in the report