Mutual Aid : A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)

from miquixote

This book cannot be underestimated in importance. It was written in response to Social Darwinism (and the horrifying excuse Social Darwinism gave for mass extermination of races), based on Kropotkin's scientific experiences in Siberia concerning cooperation in nonhuman animals, as well as his stu...

from pjsullivan

Kropotkin argues that mutual aid, co-operation, solidarity with one's neighbors, sociability, have played the leading part in human evolution, not competition. The Darwinian struggle for survival has been with the environment, not with other people. Man is not the warlike being he is thought to b...

from jorgearanda

Kropotkin's observation that species succeed just as much (or more) by cooperating than by competing was innovative a century ago, and helped buck the trend of a vicious, individualistic interpretation of Darwinism. But his book is now very dated and superseded by more recent findings, his style ...

from miquixote

This book cannot be underestimated in importance. It was written in response to Social Darwinism (and the horrifying excuse Social Darwinism gave for mass extermination of races), based on Kropotkin's scientific experiences in Siberia concerning cooperation in nonhuman animals, as well as his stu...

from pjsullivan

Kropotkin argues that mutual aid, co-operation, solidarity with one's neighbors, sociability, have played the leading part in human evolution, not competition. The Darwinian struggle for survival has been with the environment, not with other people. Man is not the warlike being he is thought to b...