Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid
I produced a free ebook edition of Mutual Aid for Standard Ebooks last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;peter-kropotkin&#x2F;mutual-aid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;peter-kropotkin&#x2F;mutual-aid</a><p>It&#x27;s very readable and quite interesting. It aimed to have a veneer of science, when the science of animals and nature was still fairly undeveloped; and it succeeded in a sense, because its observations are still held in regard, but I think it succeeded much better as a work of philosophy.<p>In any case, it suffers a little for what I think is the naive thesis of &quot;if only mankind could cooperate like the animals do, we would live in a utopia.&quot; Of course, mankind has demonstrated through thousands of years of history that tribes of men can&#x27;t really cooperate in any grand sense, so the point seems rather moot.