“One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.”

— Peter Kropotkin, book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)

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