As part of the political turmoil of the 1790s and in the wake of the French Revolution, William Godwin developed the first expression of modern anarchist thought. According to anarchist Peter Kropotkin, Godwin was "the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his work." Godwin instead attached his ideas to an early Edmund Burke. He is generally regarded as the founder of philosophical anarchism, arguing in "Political Justice" that government has an inherently malevolent influence on society and that it perpetuates dependency and ignorance.