An alternate view of competition FROM Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin

" 'Don't compete!--competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!' That is the tendency of nature, not always realized in full, but always present. That is the watchword which cones to us from the bush, the forest, the river, the ocean. 'Therefore, combine--practise mutual aid! That is the surest means for giving to each and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual, and moral.' That is what Nature teaches us; and that is what all those animals which have attained the highest position in their respective classes have done" [p. 61]