He (Darwin) pointed at how in numberless animal societies, the struggle between separate individuals for the means of existence disappears, how struggle is replaced by cooperation, and how that substitution results in the development of intellectual and moral faculties which secure to the species the best conditions for survival. He intimated that in such cases the fittest are not the physically strongest, nor the cunningest, but those who learn to combine so as to mutually support each other, strong and weak alike, for the welfare of the community.
Mutual Aid; A Factor of Evolution : Peter Kropotkin
Paraphrasing ‘The Descent of Man’ Charles Darwin (via phil-of-phillage)
Which like… is kind of what humans evolved to do, like our gigantic societies, although ugly and perverse in many ways are actually immense networks of mutual aid, our spread across the whole earth, our ability to survive in nearly any environment is the result of cooperation and mutual aid, it’s the secret to our success as a species, so like making our mutual aid more plainly mutual aid based is a great idea
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 