Mutual Aid Av Peter Kropotkin

<p><b>A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker<br></b><br>''Don''t compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!''<br><br>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. <i>Mutual Aid</i> offers instead a radical, and prescient, rewriting of the whole of human history.<br><br>With an introduction by David Priestland</p>