What is social Darwinism?

The meaning of social Darwinism is as follows:

After Darwin's theory of evolution came out, Spencer put forward "social Darwinism", arguing that society can be compared with biological organisms, and the relationship between society and its members is just like the relationship between biological individuals and their cells.

Social Darwinism itself is not a political tendency, but a social model. According to the phenomenon of "food chain" in nature, the viewpoint of "the law of the jungle, natural selection, survival of the fittest" is put forward to explain social phenomena.

Social Darwinism originates from Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory of evolution holds that with the change of environment, there is an inevitable trend of evolution from low-level life forms to high-level life forms.

Extended data:

After Darwin's theory of evolution came out, Spencer put forward "social Darwinism", arguing that society can be compared with biological organisms, and the relationship between society and its members is just like the relationship between biological individuals and their cells.

Social Darwinism itself is not a political tendency, but a social model. According to the phenomenon of "food chain" in nature, the viewpoint of "the law of the jungle, natural selection, survival of the fittest" is put forward to explain social phenomena.

A simplified view of social Darwinism is that people, especially men, must compete for future survival. They can't give any help to the poor, they must support themselves.

Although most social Darwinists in the early 20th century supported improving working conditions and raising wages, so as to give the poor a chance to support themselves and make self-sufficient people live better than those who are poor because of laziness, weakness or inferiority. Darwin also thinks that men are superior to women, which is in line with social Darwinism.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Social Darwinism