Memes tagged “social darwinism”

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Survival of the Fittest Doesn't Apply to Animals in a Social Group

Such biological ideas as the 'survival of the fittest,' whatever their doubtful value in natural science, are utterly useless in attempting to understand society ... The life of a man in society, while it is incidentally a biological fact, has characteristics that are not reducible to biology and must be explained in…

Jun 5, 2012 1

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The Social Darwinism of Wealth Consolidation

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business…

Jan 30, 2012 1

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