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8. social darwinism shouold have a different definition

Reply to Zalatix (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2012, 01:32 PM

May 2012

like it ought to be about how societies reproduce + expand themselves differently in every epoch, or how the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are always shaping + tempering + developing each other, along with the intermediary classes. and so on and so on. but, no, it turns out social darwinism means something totally ahistorical and anti-darwinist.