Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for…”
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Kropotkin calls for a reevaluation of Darwin's 'struggle for existence' concept and its implications for human society.
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He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.

