02 · Cooperation · Live

Kropotkin
& Mutual Aid

Cooperation, survival, working-class care, and socialist practice. Six lessons, free to all.

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01

Course intro — free email course from The Kiwi Dialect

Overview and how to enrol.

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02

Lesson 1: Who was Kropotkin, and what is mutual aid?

An introduction to cooperation beyond capitalist myth-making.

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03

Lesson 2: Mutual Aid vs Social Darwinism — nature is not a war of all against all

The idea that humans are naturally selfish is ideology, not science.

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04

Lesson 3: Mutual Aid in Working-Class History — strikes, friendly societies, and solidarity networks

Working-class people have always built mutual aid networks to survive capitalism.

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05

Lesson 4: Mutual Aid in Aotearoa — hapū, whānau, working-class communities

Mutual aid is not a Western import to Aotearoa. It was already here.

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06

Lesson 5: The State vs Mutual Aid — when welfare replaced self-organised solidarity

The welfare state was a genuine gain — and also used to dismantle self-organisation.

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Lesson 6: Mutual Aid Now — from food banks to tenants unions to climate response

Mutual aid is not theoretical. It is happening right now.

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