Kropotkin’s (R)evolution
Kropotkin presents a scientific basis for understanding evolution as cooperation based rather than competition based. This presents a clear counter argument to social Darwinism which masquerades as scientific. The great anarchist Kropotkin, advances that Nature as we observe instructs us to mutual aid for the benefit of one another. However, I question the scientism of Kropotkin. If there ought to be no Gods and no Masters there ought to be no Nature. This lends to a metaphysical understanding forming the basis of anarchism . It includes the radical paradox of equality and freedom. How are the two to be reconciled? How does radical individual agency pair with the incredible interdependency of all life? The answer in the synthesis of mutual aid should be unrestrained from any a priori reliance on a Superior Authority whether it be Gods, Masters, or Natures from which we derive the basis of anarchism. Anarchism like mysticism is direct experience. It is lived in action a...