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Books: Mutual Aid

P >> P. Kropotkin >> Mutual Aid




To attribute, therefore, the industrial progress of our
century to the war of each against all which it has proclaimed,
is to reason like the man who, knowing not the causes of rain,
attributes it to the victim he has immolated before his clay
idol. For industrial progress, as for each other conquest over
nature, mutual aid and close intercourse certainly are, as they
have been, much more advantageous than mutual struggle.

However, it is especially in the domain of ethics that. the
dominating importance of the mutual-aid principle appears in
full. That mutual aid is the real foundation of our ethical
conceptions seems evident enough. But whatever the opinions as to
the first origin of the mutual-aid feeling or instinct may be
whether a biological or a supernatural cause is ascribed to it--
we must trace its existence as far back as to the lowest stages
of the animal world; and from these stages we can follow its
uninterrupted evolution, in opposition to a number of contrary
agencies, through all degrees of human development, up to the
present times. Even the new religions which were born from time
to time--always at epochs when the mutual-aid principle was
falling into decay in the theocracies and despotic States of the
East, or at the decline of the Roman Empire--even the new
religions have only reaffirmed that same principle. They found
their first supporters among the humble, in the lowest,
downtrodden layers of society, where the mutual-aid principle is
the necessary foundation of every-day life; and the new forms of
union which were introduced in the earliest Buddhist and
Christian communities, in the Moravian brotherhoods and so on,
took the character of a return to the best aspects of mutual aid
i n early tribal life.

Each time, however, that an attempt to return to this old
principle was made, its fundamental idea itself was widened. From
the clan it was extended to the stem, to the federation of stems,
to the nation, and finally--in ideal, at least--to the whole
of mankind. It was also refined at the same time. In primitive
Buddhism, in primitive Christianity, in the writings of some of
the Mussulman teachers, in the early movements of the Reform, and
especially in the ethical and philosophical movements of the last
century and of our own times, the total abandonment of the idea
of revenge, or of "due reward"--of good for good and evil for
evil--is affirmed more and more vigorously. The higher
conception of "no revenge for wrongs," and of freely giving more
than one expects to receive from his neighbours, is proclaimed as
being the real principle of morality--a principle superior to
mere equivalence, equity, or justice, and more conducive to
happiness. And man is appealed to to be guided in his acts, not
merely by love, which is always personal, or at the best tribal,
but by the perception of his oneness with each human being. In
the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest
beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted
origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the
ethical progress of man, mutual support not mutual struggle--
has had the leading part. In its wide extension, even at the
present time, we also see the best guarantee of a still loftier
evolution of our race.