Mutual Aid and Evolution Quiz

Who engaged in a series of debates with the French governor of Quebec and presented the argument that punitive law and the whole apparatus of the state exist not because of some fundamental flaw in human nature but owing to the existence of private property and money?

• Kondiaronk

• Turgot

• Adam Smith

• Lahontan

Which right-wing legal theorist came up with the intellectual armature for fascism as a response to the anarchist critique of the liberal state?

• Turgot

• Adam Smith

• Bakunin

• Carl Schmitt

Who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest' to describe human history?

• Herbert Spencer

• Kropotkin

• Thomas Huxley

• Alfred Russel Wallace

According to Kropotkin, what is the foundation of society in mankind?

• Love

• Sympathy

• Conscience of human solidarity

• Personal sympathy

What did Kropotkin's intervention as part of a larger political project lead to in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century?

• Rise of anarchist and libertarian Marxist ideas

• Creation of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology

• Suppression of the Soviets and Proletkult in the Soviet Union

• Foundations of the welfare state

What did Kropotkin recommend as the role of a radical scholar?

• To develop a new universal common sense

• To restore the real proportion between conflict and union

• To focus on the aspects of Marx's theory that pulled most sharply in the other direction

• To analyze the conflict between union and cooperation

What did Kropotkin aim to understand precisely in relation to capitalism?

• The relations of mutual aid

• The organization and development of capitalist commodity production

• The relations of hierarchy and exploitation

• The relations of care become continuous with relations of violence

What has been the ongoing social revolution in Democratic Federation of Northeast Syria (Rojava) profoundly influenced by?

• Murray Bookchin's writings about social ecology and cooperative federalism

• Kurdish traditions and revolutionary experience

• Kropotkin's predictions of bureaucratic socialism

• Global popular revolt against racism and state violence

What has emerged as a key phrase used by activists and mainstream journalists in various social movements across the planet?

• Sociobiology

• Conflict resolution

• Capitalist barbarism

• Mutual aid

What did Kropotkin's rejection of both capitalism and bureaucratic socialism and his predictions of where the latter might lead to have been vindicated as?

• Insignificant

• Revolutionary

• Crackpot

• Eccentric