Hello everyone,
I’m very pleased and excited to announce that my second book, “Evolutionary Politics: Socialism for Social Species”, will be published worldwide in late November 2020. The ebook version is already available for pre-order via Amazon and Apple Books - and the paperback will be available soon as well.
So what’s the book about?
The foundational myth of contemporary capitalism – the individual alone, in a state of nature – is just that: a myth. Both Darwin and early anarchists like Piotr Kropotkin understood that mutual aid lay at the heart of nature’s conquest of the earth. A rich tradition of evolutionary socialism and left-wing Darwinism has been forgotten and disparaged.
"Evolutionary Politics: Socialism for Social Species" applies the new science of cultural evolution to the modern world, showing that the rise of fascism, political extremism and tribalism can be best understood through an evolutionary lens. By demonstrating that humans are adapted for group life in symbolic communities, we can show how the myth of the rational actor has led economists, political scientists and policymakers to fundamentally misunderstand the human social world.
As we become ever more fractured and isolated from one another, "Evolutionary Politics: Socialism for Social Species" argues that not only is a better, more solidaristic world possible – it’s necessary if we are to survive as a species.
Contact me!
If you work in media, as a book reviewer, or if you’re an academic or activist working with game theory or cultural evolution, please reach out to me on Twitter at @ASkews2000 and I’d be happy to provide you a review copy in advance of the formal release.
And if you read the book and like it, why not drop a review on Amazon or on the book’s page on Goodreads? Every bit of feedback helps!