A purely competitive model of relationships among members of a community implies a rigorously authoritarian-hierarchical social structure where the combat between individuals has been bound up and rationalized into the individual's rank and subordination. A more cooperative, Kropotkinian model implies a less authoritarian-hierarchical, more egalitarian system of social relations. Autodidacts will likely have either rejected or been rejected by the established authoritarian-hierarchical academic system and will thus feel attracted to models like Kropotkin's which legitimate their approach to information and learning.