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Take two groups with different approaches to doing things...we'll call them Builders and Bullies.
Builders work with each other. They may argue (endlessly), they may not see eye to eye on everything, but at the end of the day they -- together -- figure out what to do to solve problems and take care of things by working with each other.
Bullies work against each other. When they don't agree on how to do something, they force others to yield to them by violence. This isn't just beating people up (although that's a common option); it's also things like hoarding things for themselves beyond what they can use, blocking people from supporting themselves by locking up resources, etc. They don't just strong-arm people into doing things their way; they break up alternatives as well.
Whenever Builders and Bullies come into conflict, Bullies tend to have an advantage in that they are already used to the mindset, the strategies, and the tactics associated with working against each other. Bullies are good at starting and maintaining actions which force others to comply because that's already their normal approach to doing things. Builders, on the other hand, are vulnerable to easy disruption, as they are used to working WITH each other.
Builders have the strength of collaboration; they can do many things which are difficult or impossible to do were it not for working with each other. This strength builds up over time as knowledge, experience, and resources are accumulated and shared. Builders face an ongoing challenge of dealing with their own progression of success; as they get better at doing things, the expectations and standards of access among the people rise, and new challenges in quantity and quality of production, freedom, and ethical ideals are opened up.
Bullies have the strength of not needing agreement; they just decide to do things and if others don't like it, such opposition is crushed. This strength builds up as rivals are defeated and coercive power consolidated. Bullies face an ongoing challenge of both other Bullies as well as the spiraling inefficiency of coercion itself, namely: people working against each other is inherently and dramatically wasteful and difficult (relative to people working with each other).
Historically, the Builders correspond to the principles, and practitioners, of cooperation, while the Bullies correspond to the principles and practitioners of competition:
cooperation: two or more sentient actors working with each other to achieve a shared goal
competition: two or more sentient actors working against each other for achievement of an exclusive goal
All coercive systems, including (but not limited to) capitalism, follow some variation of the competitive approach (the Bullies) at the highest level.