Hi! Thanks for the question.
I have found the following resources on Social Darwinism.
"Social Darwinism holds that the principle of the "survival of the
fittest" applies to human ethics and politics just as it does to
biological evolution. Social Darwinism extends from Charles Darwin's
1859 Origin of Species in which the theory of evolution was set
forth."
"Social Darwinism"
http://www.rmfc.org/fs/fs0068.html
Here meanwhile is a link explaining what "survival of the fittest" is
in terms of Social Darwinism.
"Social Darwinism is a quasi-philosophical, quasi-religious,
quasi-sociological view that came from the mind of Herbert Spencer, an
English philosopher in the 19th century."
"But, for our purposes, it is the use to which some people made of
biological evolution which concerns us. Some simplified the idea to
"survival of the fittest." Others believed that an identical process
took place among human beings. They believed that white Protestant
Europeans had evolved much further and faster than other "races." And
some, especially the followers of Herbert Spencer, took it one step
further. Human society is always in a kind of evolutionary process in
which the fittest- which happened to be those who can make lots of
money--were chosen to dominate. There were armies of unfit, the poor,
who simply could not compete. And just as nature weeds out the unfit,
an enlightened society ought to weed out its unfit and permit them to
die off so as not to weaken the racial stock."
"Social Darwinism"
http://www.ioa.com/~shermis/socjus/socdar.html
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