 Prince Peter Kropotkin wrote of Tolstoy in the article on anarchism in the 1911 "Encyclopædia Britannica" while in hundreds of essays over the last twenty years of his life Tolstoy reiterated the anarchist critique of the state and recommended books by Kropotkin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to his readers whilst rejecting anarchism's espousal of violent revolutionary means.Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert who advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism.Day "believed all states were inherently totalitarian" and was a self-labeled anarchist.