By the principle of charity we can go with your interpretation.

Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid directly covers this topic as well. Altruism is natural and occurs throughout our history, arguably cooperation is the basis of our civilization.

Dominating aggressive cultures have attacked and eradicated more peaceful cultures, sure, but you can’t call one human nature and the other not.

I guess I don’t see what the point is besides defeatism and playing in to the hands of those that want us to continue doing nothing?

To add to this, an outside observer would say humans think their pets are little humans, throwing birthday parties, dressing them in clothing, talking to them.

lol: me, an intellectual, gets into Internet arguments

You: a mouthbreather, not taking time out of your day to disprove tired arguments

100+ years of socialist and communist philosophy and nobody considered that actually human capitalist by nature though

when you grow up you’ll realize that it’s even more stupid to engage with people like you

bro thinks I give a fuck about his opinion and wrote an essay

Fuck off with your capitalist realism. The same arguments could have been made with feudalism before it.

Maybe you lack the historical knowledge and imagination to imagine a better world but your personal failures aren’t reflective of “human nature.”

as a society there’s more than enough to take care of a disproportionate amount of “non-workers” but instead we make up fake bullshit jobs and force people to work 40 hour weeks so a tiny fraction of us can send their second plane to pick up their girlfriend to go on a date in Italy