Mutual Aid

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Publicado el 2 de octubre de 2021 por Standard Ebooks.

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Peter Kropotkin initially published the chapters of Mutual Aid as individual essays in the intellectual periodical The Nineteenth Century over the course of six years. In 1902 the essays were published as a book.

        <p>In it, Kropotkin explores the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation across both animal and human societies. He begins by outlining how animals, both within and across species, thrive not through individual fitness, but rather through mutual cooperation. He then extends the breadth of his study to ancient human societies across generations and nations, until arriving at modern society, which he suggests has largely dispensed with the ancient benefits of mutual aid in favor of private property, capitalism, and social Darwinism.</p>
        <p>Though more of a philosophical work than a scientific work, many of Kropotkin’s observations of the animal kingdom are considered to be scientifically accurate today, with Douglas H. Boucher calling <i>Mutual Aid</i> a precursor to the theory …

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El apoyo mutuo es una fuerza en la evolución

Obra multidisciplinar y de obligada lectura para biólogos (al igual que el origen de las especies). Kropotkin dispone la información jerárquicamente con arreglo a la creencia de principios del S.XX a un progreso lineal hacia la perfección (escala del ser). Por ello el orden es el siguiente: I) El apoyo mutuo en los animales, II) entre los "Salvajes" o las tribus con "matrimonio comunal", III) entre los "Bárbaros" o las tribus con "familia indivisa", IV) en la ciudada medieval mediante las guildas, y V) en la sociedad moderna: Asociaciones, sindicatos y cooperativas.

Para Kropotkin, que cita al eminente Zoologo de finales del S.XIX Kesseler, "existe otra ley que podemos llamar de ayuda mutua y que, por lo menos en relación a los animales, tal vez sea más importante que la ley de la lucha por la existencia", y cita numerosísimos ejemplos que oscilan entre lo que actualmente denominamos selección por …

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One of my favourite books of all time. I even did my thesis on it. I would highly suggest it to anyone. Though negated by modern sciences and psychology you will be amazed how much of social Darwinism still lurks in today's "common sense" as manufactured by ones in control. Usually the arguments that are quite famous and repeated often to support capitalism and fascism still unconsciously arise from long negated but not yet dead social Darwinism. This work is the only complete response and scientific negation of social Darwinism. Social Darwinism in the past has been a weapon of fascists, totalitarians (tankies), and capitalists alike to support their arguments. You will be amazed how many common arguments in favour of racism, colonization, patriarchy and the mindset of such poisonous nature are production of social Darwinism. Kropotkin was amazing! I love all of his writings.

Temas

  • Cooperation
  • Social groups
  • Social institutions