Peter Kropotkin exposed how capitalists used "survival of the fittest" to justify exploitation. 120 years later, we're fighting the same battle. This episode explores mutual aid not as charity or activism, but as our biological reality - and why understanding this changes everything about how we organize.In this episode:The 1800s debate between Kropotkin and Social Darwinists that shaped how we see human natureHow industrial capitalists used "natural selection" to justify child labor and poverty wagesWhy Project 2025 targets mutual aid networks and criminalizes public careReading from Chapter 6 of A Radical Guide's "Resist Project 2025" bookletUnderstanding cooperation as an evolutionary strategy, not a political positionHow communities create alternatives that make authoritarian systems irrelevantThe same ideology that justified factory exploitation now justifies letting people die without healthcare. But communities practicing mutual aid aren't doing charity - they're expressing the same cooperative force that builds forests and keeps thirty-seven trillion cells in your body working together.Get involved:Download "Resist Project 2025" free at https://www.radical-guide.com/radical-resources/Listen to the Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin audiobook: https://www.radical-guide.com/mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution-a-radical-audiobook/Share your thoughts: How does understanding mutual aid as a biological nature change your organizing?Support this work with a tax-deductible donation at https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to-support/Follow ideas, not people.#MutualAid #Kropotkin #Project2025 #RadicalOrganizing #Anarchism #CommunityOrganizing #SocialDarwinism #CollectiveCare #ARadicalGuide

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