KROPOTKIN, MUTUALISMO E ANARCHIA (La moderna ginestra) (original) (raw)

Through the analysis of Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin's thought, this paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the macro-processes (biological, historical and political) through which micro processes (especially social relations) are organised. The analysis of the concept of mutual support allows to create a cognitive bridge between the macro and micro dimensions, through which it is possible to understand how, on a general level, both planes are organised by the evolution-revolution dialectic. To analyse this logic, it is necessary to define individuals as social animals endowed with reason and, through the analysis of these attributed, to articulate a historical, political and biological analysis of the processes that structure social relations and those that interpose their natural evolution. Confirming the need, shared with Kropotkin, for a multidisciplinary approach to sociological issues, it is possible to see how the motions of reproduction and, therefore, of evolution of social structures necessarily follow an order that is not social as it is produced by man, but as an expression of the natural dimension of individuals, connected to cooperativity. Human society is therefore one of the living societies pre- sent on earth and in order to understand its logic and implement its eman- cipation it is necessary to underline, as Kropotkin does, the intrinsic rela- tionship between social and natural and between conflict and cooperation.