#kropotkin

Kropotkin wrote a popular science book about the role of mutual aid in evolution (the subtitle "*A* factor of evolution" is important; he knew it was one factor among many). He also pointed out that many aspects of past and present life already tend in an anarchistic, communistic direction.

'When we discuss the order of things which, in our view, should emerge from the coming revolution, we are often told: "All that is theory, with which we should not be concerning ourselves. Put it aside, and let us think of practical things. (Electoral questions, for example). Let us prepare for the coming to power of the working class. And later we shall see what will emerge from the revolution."

Dinamite - una storia di anarchici e poliziotti, di indagini e terrore, di Steven Johnson [Neri Pozza 2025]

La moral anarquista - Kropotkin

We know at the present time that all animals, beginning with the ants, going on to the birds, and ending with the highest mammals, are fond of plays, wrestling, running after each other, trying to capture each other, teasing each other, and so on. And while many plays are, so to speak, a school for the proper behavior of the young in mature life, there are others which, apart from their utilitarian purposes are, together with dancing and singing, mere manifestations of an excess of forces— “the joy of life,” and a desire to communicate in some way or another with other individuals of the same or of other species—in short, a manifestation of sociability proper, which is a distinctive feature of all the animal world.