D.C. Insider: There's a Shadow Govt. Running the Country, and It's Not Up for Re-Election

[El_Johns]

78. I disagree with you and am asking you to explain why you think Marxism is social darwinism.

The part you bolded doesn't explain anything to me. Many past and present social policies and theories can be characterized as social Darwinism; that doesn't mean Marxism can, and that doesn't mean that all those social policies and theories don't share something in common: namely, the idea that power-holders in society hold power because they are the "strongest" or "fittest," therefore they hold power justly (and vice versa, the powerless are so because they are "unfit" and so their condition is just).

I think where you start going wrong is in equating "social evolution" & "social Darwinism" (they're not the same).

This is producing muddled thought (IMHO) in which anything having to do with power can be labeled 'social Darwinism."

Also, communism is not a form of capitalism, another kind of muddle.

I don't think there's any point in continuing when we don't speak the same language.