Date: 15 Feb 1999 07:30:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Re: Darwin etc


Hi Chris,

You wrote:

> Maybe I missed it somewhere in the "free and frank" exchanges about Darwin
> and survival of the fittest -- but it seems strange that no-one has offered
> up Kropotkin's thesis (although maybe Chuck or Brian mentioned this)...that
> the mjority of competititon that goes on is INTER SPECIES.....

I think, you mean majority, not "mjority" (m-jority?).

By the way, the majority of competition is between species and between  
specimen's inside of a specie, if we take note of the new science results  
of the competition of Gen's inside of the body of females and between  
mutations inside of a specie.

> for the niche
> in the environment, rather than INTRA SPECIES (to "eradicate" the "weak"
> elements). From this it follows that the most succesful animals are those
> that have learned to cooperate together in ever more complex fashion....ie
> US.

Mutual aid and cooperation doesn't eradicate weak elements or
characteristics. The Homo sapiens sapiens have still today for example the  
same weak skin as the Homo erectus. Both have used fire to warm themselves  
and their relations (see the fire place 400 000 years ago near Peking).

If we take note of the fact that every animal is a outcome of a  
cooperation of cell's than we know that cooperation isn't the niche in the  
environment. Cooperation is a principle of nature on the same level as the  
competition is a principle of nature.
>
> "And man is appealed to, to be guided in his acts not merely by love which
> is always personal, or at best tribal, but by the perception of his oneness
> with each human being.  In the practice of Mutual Aid, which we can trace to
> the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find posisitve and undoubted
> origins of our ethical conceptions: and that 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 present time, we also see the
> best guarantee of a still loftier evolution"
> Kropotkin "Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution"

Nico






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