Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution - Pyotr Kropotkin

Category: History, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Anarchism Co-operation Leftism Libertarian Libertarian-left Libertarian-socialism Libertarianism Philosophy Politics

Written by Pyotr Kropotkin
Format: MP3

This 1902 essay collection by the Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin explore the role of mutually beneficial cooperation and reciprocity in the animal kingdom and human societies. It is an argument against theories of social Darwinism that emphasize competition and survival of the fittest, and against the romantic views of writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau who thought that cooperation was motivated by universal love.