Terence Green's article explores Peter Kropotkin's life and ideology, highlighting his belief in cooperation as central to human evolution. Born to aristocracy, Kropotkin renounced his privileges to support peasant welfare and anarchism. He contrasted Darwin's competition-driven evolution with his own observation of cooperation among species, arguing that societal issues stem from the corrupting influence of capitalism and the state. Kropotkin proposed that true survival and community thrive in small, autonomous groups free from central authority, reflecting our inherent cooperative nature.
‘We are born to cooperate,’ Kropotkin said, ‘but the twin evils of the modern state and capitalism corrupt and distort our innate goodness.’
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