A Radical Podcast
Mutual Aid as Evolutionary Truth? | A Podcast for Radicals – Special Edition
21 Sep 2025
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
No persons identified in this episode.
This episode hasn't been transcribed yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
Popular episodes get transcribed faster
Other recent transcribed episodes
Transcribed and ready to explore now
#2426 - Cameron Hanes & Adam Greentree
16 Dec 2025
The Joe Rogan Experience
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
12 Dec 2025
Lex Fridman Podcast
#2425 - Ethan Hawke
11 Dec 2025
The Joe Rogan Experience
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO
10 Dec 2025
Bloomberg Tech
Don’t Call It a Comeback
10 Dec 2025
Motley Fool Money
Japan Claims AGI, Pentagon Adopts Gemini, and MIT Designs New Medicines
10 Dec 2025
The Daily AI Show