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Title: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin ISBN: 0-87558-024-6 Publisher: Porter Sargent Pub Pub. Date: December, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Required bio reading
Comment: This book, which appears to be about the only surviving scientific text from Kropotkin's work, is very interesting and insightful. The first two chapters which deal with animals I found most interesting, because they address the roots of the falsehood of social-darwinism. Kropotkin then proceeds to move through the different stages of human society and describes the mutual aid a compassion fetures therein. It is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it. It is a scientific text, but it has major political implications and is very accessible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: This book is great.It crushes social "darwinism" to the ground.Brilliant.Next time a Libertarian(the right wing kind) tells you that the only way a species can survive is by bitter competition.Point out this book.This book is a godsend.Being a biochemist(and a left libertarian),one of the hardest things I've had to deal with(except pomos) is racist,capitalist "scientists" or sociobiologists.This book makes a powerful,scientific argument for cooperation,mutual aid and compassion.All I can say is BRILLIANT!5 stars!
Rating: 5
Summary: Mandatory for any interested in any humanity or science.
Comment: This book shows how Darwin's findings were all too influenced by Malthus and were a direct reflection of the Capitalistic political area he was from. Kropotkin witnessed in Siberia that animals rather than competing to stay alive, had to work together to stay alive.
Kropotkin stresses that cooperation is the main factor in evolution, not competing forces that Darwin and his contemporaries thought.
Kropotkin gives a number of examples of inter and intra-species working together to survive and thus evolve.
Kropotkin explores a number of societies. Steven J. Gould has given credence to Kropotkin, yet he is largely ignored in evolution texts.
This book changed the way I think about evolution and helped me to realize how a study as influencial as Darwin's could be biased.
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Title: Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin ISBN: 048641955X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings by Peter Kropotkin, Marshall S. Shatz ISBN: 0521459907 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: God and the State by Michael Bakunin ISBN: 048622483X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1970 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy by Michael Bakunin, Marshall Shatz ISBN: 0521369738 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker, Nicholas Walter, Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0745313876 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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