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cooperate in order to survive harsh winters by traveling long distances. He did not deny the competitive form of struggle but argued that the cooperative counterpart has been under-emphasized: "There is an immense amount of warfare and extermination going on amidst various species; there is, at the
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Daniel P. Todes, in his account of Russian naturalism in the 19th century, concludes that Kropotkin's work "cannot be dismissed as the idiosyncratic product of an anarchist dabbling in biology" and that his views "were but one expression of a broad current in Russian evolutionary thought that
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Kropotkin emphasizes the distinction between competitive struggle between individual organisms over limited resources and collective struggle between organisms and the environment. He drew from his firsthand observations of
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Includes Introdution by David Graeber and Andrej Grubaac, Foreward by Ruth Kinna, Postscript by GATS, Afterword by Allan Antliff, and illustrations by N.O.Bonzo
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same time, as much, or perhaps even more, of mutual support, mutual aid, and mutual defense... Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
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admired Kropotkin's observations, noting that cooperation, if it increases individual survival, is not ruled out by
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pre-dated, indeed encouraged, his work on the subject and was by no means confined to leftist thinkers."
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for destroying historically important mutual aid institutions, particularly through the imposition of
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As a description of biology, Kropotkin's perspective is consistent with contemporary understanding.
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Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought
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Boucher, Douglas H., ed. (1985). "The Idea of Mutualism, Past and Future".
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Includes Kropotkin's 1914 preface, Foreword and Bibliography by
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between 1890 and 1896, explore the role of mutually beneficial
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Works originally published in Nineteenth Century (periodical)
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is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian
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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation
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Mutual Aid (book)

Peter Kropotkin
mutual aid
a series
Anarchist communism

Anarchy
Anti-authoritarianism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-statism
Class consciousness
Class conflict
Classless society
Common ownership
Common resources
Commune
Consensus decision-making
Co-operative economics
Egalitarian community
Free association
From each according to his ability,
to each according to his needs

General strike
Gift economy
Give-away shop
Market abolitionism
Mutual aid
Prefigurative politics
Primitive communism
Proletarian internationalism

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