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A review by justin1227
Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin
4.0
kropotkin is such a cool guy. like come for the ecology and history, stay for the genuinely uplifting rhetoric. this book is an affirmation that people are fundamentally good, that it is in our nature (and our best interest) to live cooperatively. it spits on the myth of rugged individualism and invites its readers to be a part of a larger whole.
“There is the gist of human psychology. Unless men are maddened in the battlefield, they ‘cannot stand it’ to hear appeals for help, and not respond to them. The hero goes;… the sophisms of the brain cannot resist the mutual-aid feeling, because this feeling has been nurtured by thousands of years of human social life and hundreds of thousands of years of pre-human life in societies.”
(page 160 in my edition)
“There is the gist of human psychology. Unless men are maddened in the battlefield, they ‘cannot stand it’ to hear appeals for help, and not respond to them. The hero goes;… the sophisms of the brain cannot resist the mutual-aid feeling, because this feeling has been nurtured by thousands of years of human social life and hundreds of thousands of years of pre-human life in societies.”
(page 160 in my edition)