It also cites persuasive evidence of human nature's innate compatibility with anarchist society.This book cannot be overestimated in importance. We’d love your help. In this sense, I don't see Kropotkin's analysis as providing a basis for a 'natural' argument for anarchist society--though his conclusion certainly is more affirming than many sociological analyses I've come across.Taking pretty much everything that current cultural and social thought vultures around down a couple of notches, Kropotkin makes a logical, sad-because-it-was-even-necessary argument for what biologists now call mutualism. For Kropotkin, the period from 1000AD to 1350AD was a high point of civilization, as evidenced by the spontaneously organizing communes, not only on the Italian peninsulas, but all over Europe: "[I]n less than a hundred years free cities had been called into existence on the coasts of the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Baltic, the Atlantic Ocean, down to the fjords of Scandinavia; at the feet of the Apennines, the Alps, the Black Forest, the Grampians, and the Carpathians; in the plains of Russia, Hungary, France and Spain. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of That gave you some hope that humans, after all, are not selfish, awful and greedy beings? 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 studies of savages, barbarians, the medieval city, and ourselves. I didn’t know Mutual Aid was more a rebuttal to Darwin’s work than an anarchist text. Text taken from the Anarchy Archives Fairly well-written essays taken to be an antidote to the Hobbesian worldview of a war of all against all that most people assume to heart human psychology and social relations. Essential to the understanding of human evolution as well as social organization, it offers a powerful counterpoint to the tenets of Social Darwinism.
The Darwinian struggle for survival has been with the environment, not with other people.
The basic idea is simple and anyone who has ever had kids or felt even a glimmer or twinge of compassion for the homeless person coveting your pocket change as you satre greasily at them through the seditious steam of your fucking latte has felt it: we progress further by helping one another out than by crass, atomistic, hyper-individualized and entitled greed.If books change lives and make us who we are, then I owe this one a lot. The main idea behind the book is that cooperation increases the fitness rate of a species. Ultimately, he makes the argument that mutual aid propels evolution as much as, if not more than, the common Darwinist mantra of “survival of the fittest”.
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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The book cites several examples of social organization at work within the animal kingdom, including the raising of offspring, mutual defense, the finding of food, and For the month of March I read Peter Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He however, acknowledges that this is not the only rule that drives nature (the other main one being of competition), but chooses to only focus on mutual aid because it has been so far completely ignored by the authors and scientist of this time. Unfortunately, his words went unheeded, the general masses are divided by the elite's message of selfishness and individualism and will continue being serfs. One thing I felt this book really succeeded at was illustrating the importance of the guild in medieval cities, and also how the emerging forces of centralized states and capitalist economics reduced the enjoyment people could have in their jobs and alienated them from each other.
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