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Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness
Beeftopia writes "Conventional wisdom has suggested selfishness is most beneficial evolutionary strategy for humans, while cooperation is suboptimal. This dovetailed with a political undercurrent dating back more than a century, starting with social Darwinism. A new paper in the journal Nature Communications casts doubt on this school of thought. The paper shows that while selfishness is optimal in the short term, it fails in the long term. Cooperation is seen as the most effective long term human evolutionary strategy."
The benefits of cooperation and how cooperation is also a selfish act is well covered in Dawkin's book The Selfish Gene. That book is, what, thirty years old now, more? At the time it was fairly well established that cooperative behaviour would typically benefit the species and further "selfish" genes. Nothing about this story is new, it was old twenty years ago.
That *is* pure Communism. Karl Marx explicitly demanded a centralized, totalitarian state. Which invariably led to the development of the idea of the "vanguard" as a way excuse the exploitation of the workers by the new political class.
It's why the Anarchists split away and became enemies of the Communists, because they abhorred the idea of the state and of violent political coercion. Many of the idealistic characteristics you attribute to Communism are actually only attributable to Anarchists. It's why Stalin supported the Republican Fascists in the Spanish Civil War instead of the Anarchists.
Wikipedia is your friend. Ignorance has no excuse in the 21st century if you have a computer and an internet connection.
(Feel free to correct my ignorance. I don't excuse myself, either.)