How Herbert Spencer Helped Liberate Japan, Egypt, and India How Herbert Spencer Helped Liberate Japan, Egypt, and India

Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Meany

“Today, Herbert Spencer should be known as one of the great classical liberal anti-imperialists. Unfortunately, any mention of his name is typically accompanied by the phrase, ‘Social Darwinism,’ a theory that individuals are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection governing the evolution of plants and animals. Social Darwinism, at times, was used by early twentieth-century intellectuals to justify imperialist, eugenicist, and white supremacist policies under the principle of survival of the fittest. This intellectual caricature of Spencer as a eugenicist and white supremacist has greatly maimed his legacy.” (10/23/24)

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