There are people out there that would say the opposite, atleast for humans. People like Bookchin and Öcalan.
That doesnt mean that they dont want technology to stop existing or that they explicity want to go back to a world where everyone lives in small groups of hunters & gatherers. They just connect the invention of the state with what many would say was the dawn/emergence of civilization.
Besides that, the phrasing has a really colonial undertone, using contrasting jungle & civilization and kind of assigning them positive and negative values. Wouldnt suprise me, because anarchist were really not that aware when it comes to colonialism around that time…
He initially set out to prove Charles Darwin’s assertion that competition is the law of the Jungle and ended up discovering the opposite, and that’s why he wrote Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It was intended to be a refutation of Charles Darwin’s work.
There are people out there that would say the opposite, atleast for humans. People like Bookchin and Öcalan.
That doesnt mean that they dont want technology to stop existing or that they explicity want to go back to a world where everyone lives in small groups of hunters & gatherers. They just connect the invention of the state with what many would say was the dawn/emergence of civilization.
Besides that, the phrasing has a really colonial undertone, using contrasting jungle & civilization and kind of assigning them positive and negative values. Wouldnt suprise me, because anarchist were really not that aware when it comes to colonialism around that time…
I think Kropotkin also said more or less the opposite himself in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.
He initially set out to prove Charles Darwin’s assertion that competition is the law of the Jungle and ended up discovering the opposite, and that’s why he wrote Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It was intended to be a refutation of Charles Darwin’s work.
I was about to mention that too. The first part of mutual aid is talking through all the ways that animals work together and support each other.