Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Author: Kropotkin, Peter

Brand: Penguin Classics

Color: White

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 09-07-2024

Part Number: 9780241355336

Details: A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker

'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'

In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation, the anarchist thinker and natural scientist Peter Kropotkin argued that it is our innate instinct for mutual aid - rather than mutual struggle - which enables societies to survive and flourish. From the earliest days of evolution through to medieval guilds, indigenous nomads and modern voluntary organisations, Kropotkin's vision of small-scale, ecologically sustainable, collective communities challenged the orthodoxies of his age, whether individualism or Marxism. Mutual Aid offers instead a radical, and prescient, rewriting of the whole of human history.

With an introduction by David Priestland

EAN: 9780241355336

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English, French