ABSTRACT
The principle of struggle for existence leads to survival by means of natural selection. In a word, struggle alone is not the incentive for the formation of a collective, but also individuals' needs for society, which can originate on a basis having nothing in common with struggle. But external conditions alone are insufficient for the formation of communities, since in the animal world they are determined not only by struggle, but also by the conditions resulting from the organization itself. The law of struggle for existence, along with solidarity and social selection, does have a place in the human world, and only the interaction of these laws determines human progress. The support and protection of children, of the sick and of the elderly could not be accounted for from the point of view of the law of struggle for existence or from that of natural selection.
