Summary
Anarchocommunist thinker whose Darwinist principle of mutual aid Franz Oppenheimer adopted as a foundational tenet of his utopian settlement cooperative (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.63-64).
Details
- Oppenheimer adopted Kropotkin’s position that Darwin’s struggle for existence described man’s struggle against nature, not a struggle between social groups or races, the two struggles standing in inverse relationship (PDF p.63).
- Veneration for Kropotkin connected Oppenheimer for a time with other advocates of social anarchism and cooperative models, such as Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber (PDF p.64).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Liberal socialism