mutual aid

noun

, Sociology.

the cooperative as opposed to the competitive factors operating in the development of society.

First recorded in 1530–40

Among the carnivorous mammals the social dog or wolf tribe displays the intelligent habit of mutual aid.

His contention is that in progressive evolution, mutual aid plays a greater part than mutual struggle.

Here he had to learn to get on with other individuals, to live and let live, to practise co-operation and mutual aid.

Kropotkins Mutual Aid is worth noting here as one of the earliest correctives to these popular misconceptions of Darwinism.

They are for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, and for the sake of mutual aid.

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