Mutual Aid - A Factor of Evolution

Don''t compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!''br>br>Welcome to the anarchist history of the world. In this series of lively, provocative essays, Peter Kropotkin argues that ''mutual aid'' is a natural instinct in all of us, animal and human. Cooperation, reciprocity, support: these, for Kropotkin, are the over-looked foundations of our history.br>br>From the earliest days of evolution through to artisanal guilds, indigenous nomads and even the Royal National Lifeboat Association, it is a pragmatic, mutually beneficial bond to our fellow humans that has allowed us to survive. In this, Kropotkin cheerfully challenges all the major orthodoxies of his age, from individualism and social Darwinism to Marxist theories of the saviour state. Instead, these essays insist that a better life for all of us - and our planet - begins when we reject competition, and embrace the local, the mutual and the collective.>

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• Authors: Peter Kropotkin, KROPOTKIN PETER, David Priestland
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780241355336
• ISBN: 978-0-241-35533-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Literary essays, Political science and theory