Mutual Aid and David Graeber

A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin’s masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian aristocrat who renounced his titles, became a scientist and anarchist, and wrote many significant works, but none so important as MUTUAL AID, his 1902 treatise on the role of cooperation in evolutionary biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution

Originally intended as a series of (never delivered) lectures for William Morris’s Socialist League, the book was an assault on “moral philosophers” who used Darwin’s work and “survival of the fittest” to justify class oppression at home and imperial slaughter abroad.

Painstaking researched and beautifully argued, MUTUAL AID reveals the scientific fraud of “social Darwinism,” and its claims that hierarchy and exploitation are evolutionary inevitabilities baked into our very nature.

And while Kropotkin’s ideas have inspired generations of biologists AND activists, the social Darwinists have only grown in influence, providing pseudoscientific cover for greed, oppression and immorality.

The folks at PM Press have just published a stunning, illustrated new edition of MUTUAL…