• Ftumch@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    I think Kropotkin also said more or less the opposite himself in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.

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      He initially set out to prove Charles Darwin’s assertion that competition is the law of the Jungle and ended up discovering the opposite, and that’s why he wrote Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It was intended to be a refutation of Charles Darwin’s work.

    • Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I was about to mention that too. The first part of mutual aid is talking through all the ways that animals work together and support each other.