A nickname given to anarchocommunist activist, philosopher, and revolutionary Pyotr (Peter) Kropotkin (
Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) (1842 – 1921), largely in part due to his appearance: a jolly, balding man with a large,
white, bushy beard and glasses. These features combined make Kropotkin look strikingly like Santa Claus. The "bread" part comes from Kropotkin'
s most
popular and distinguished work, "The Conquest of Bread", in which among other things, he criticizes capitalism by outlining core issues including class struggle, poverty and scarcity.