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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin.The essays, initially published in the English periodical The Nineteenth Century between 1890 and 1896, [1] explore the role of mutually beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (or "mutual aid") in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and ...
Mutual Banking: Showing the Radical Deficiency of the Present Circulating Medium and the Advantages of a Free Currency. Kropotkin, Peter (1902). Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. Lloyd, J. William (1927). Anarchist-Mutualism. Individualist anarchist criticism. Long, Roderick T., ed. (Winter 2006). Journal of Libertarian Studies 20 (1).
A mutual-aid soup kitchen Conder Street Mission Hall, 1881. The term "mutual aid" was popularized by the anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin in his essay collection Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which argued that cooperation, not competition, was the driving mechanism behind evolution, through biological mutualism.
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin [a] (9 December 1842 [b] – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions.
The Conquest of Bread [a] is an 1892 book by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin. Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series of articles in the anarchist journal Le Révolté . It was first published in Paris with a preface by Élisée Reclus , who also suggested the title.
The principle of mutual aid, originally identified by Peter Kropotkin as arising from natural law, is that since evolution occurs in groups – not individuals – it is evolutionarily advantageous for members of a community to assist each other. The anarchist approach to building power – and structuring power relationships – is derived ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Works by Peter Kropotkin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Mutual Aid: A ...
Peter Kropotkin argued in his 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution that Darwin did not define the fittest as the strongest, or most clever, but recognized that the fittest could be those who cooperated with each other. In many animal societies, "struggle is replaced by co-operation".