Kropotkin -vs- Darwin. Humanity, Cooperation and Mutual Aid -vs- Egoism and Pitiless Struggle; Socialism/Communism -vs- Competitive Capitalism/Darwinism. (Russia -vs- West)

[Kurt Buff]

Kropotkin said only one salient thing: If there were a God, we would
need to assassinate him.

The characterization of Darwinism as egoism and pitiless struggle is
so odd as to be not even wrong, though it was popular.

Evolutionary theory (and Darwinism) is about differential
reproduction, not the Hobbesian war of all against all. It certainly
admits of, and has been demonstrated to use, cooperation.

Kurt

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Александр <afalex169 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution
> https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/
>
> Written partly in response to social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas
> H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence",
> Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in
> Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the
> evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, in pre-feudal societies and
> medieval cities, and in modern times, he concluded that cooperation and
> mutual aid, and not Darwin's pitiless struggle, are the most important
> factors in the evolution of species and the ability to survive.