Mutual Aid vs The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2): Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Sociologie, Sociology, Philosophy
Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays, initially published in the English periodical The Nineteenth…
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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)
“This book raises issues which may not be apparent from the table of contents.”
An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society doesn't, forcing its citizens to rely on extra-legal revolution. Popper analyzes the open-closed society debate using…
The verdict
- Readers rate Mutual Aid highest: Mutual Aid 4.2 · The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) 3.9.
- Mutual Aid is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 9 for The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2).
- Mutual Aid has the widest readership — 4193 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Mutual Aid | The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (4193) | — |
| Hardcover | 5.0 (2) | 3.6 (7) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5) | — |
Reception
| Mutual Aid | The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4193 | 7 |
| Editions | 173 | 76 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 20000 | — |
| Written reviews | 386 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3522 | — |
| Pages | 198 | 526 |