darwinism

What is the relationship between darwinism (what a ridiculous term, by the way) and the rise of the Nazis?

And (at approximately same time) rejection of darwinism has stopped soviet regime from inducing famines, using slave labour and purges.

Not sure why you were downvoted so much - fiscal darwinism is exactly what it is.

This has been used to justify Capitalism, much like the concept of evolution within social darwinism.

Pretty much everyone knows Social Darwinism to be immoral and, on net, a bad idea.

Social Darwinism eventually took it's place, applying biological theories to social life and stating that the poor are simply biologically and/or socially inferior.

The pure Darwinism evolution dogma has extended a lot because it was an easy answer, like the world being created in 6 days.

I even wonder if this is correlated with social darwinism, that, for some cultural reason, you must be bad so be successful.

> Pretty much everyone knows Social Darwinism to be immoral and, on net, a bad idea.

It's not a piece of software you're developing after all; there may be many different viable paths, and darwinism can take care of selecting the winners via attrition of paths.

I knew I'd stumble upon Social Darwinism pretty soon here.

I'm not suggesting darwinism here, just availability of information.

Darwinism is also full of "x happend differently than previously thought".

Fun side note / trivia: Some wag had Hubert Spencer (the proponent of "social darwinism") buried across the path and facing the grave of his intellectual enemy Karl Marx.

Social "sciences" were made political because a group of radical influential thinkers were interested in furthering studies that would disprove the role of genetics, biology and darwinism in social studies.

"Would Darwinism suggest that we self-selected a more peaceful human race by breeding men who stayed home, or a more aggressive human race by breeding men who were more successful at fighting wars and then returning?" I doubt either.

Part of the problem is that structural inequality is supported by primitive racist belief systems like Social Darwinism.

This choice isn’t a problem in practice because Lamarckism – unlike neo-Darwinism – doesn’t offer explanatory models which are essential to understand and reason about these processes.

Darwinism explains why extraordinary success is not really a positive selective pressure, because even if you're a 1000x success over average, you don't have 1000x offspring over average.