Hunting Down Social Darwinism

Hunting Down Social Darwinism addresses the manner in which free-market advocacy is often criticized as social Darwinism. It explores the term’s meaning and the reasons such criticisms prove to be misleading. Hayashi examines whether it is fair to describe nineteenth-century free-market advocates Spencer and Sumner as social Darwinists.

Stuart K. Hayashi

Part I: Stalking Social Darwinism Chapter 1: Did Nineteenth-Century Capitalists Want the Poor to Die? Chapter 2: The Conflation of Laissez Faire with Regulation-Imposed Eugenics Chapter 3: The Equivocation That Infects Intellectuals Chapter 4: The Camouflaging of Eugenicists as Eugenicism's Opponents Chapter 5: Progressivism: The Genesis of Eugenics Part II: The Governism of the Third Reich Chapter 6: Is Naziism the Final Stage of Capitalism? Chapter 7: Socialism and Fascism: Close Relatives Chapter 8: The Führer versus Free Enterprise Chapter 9: They Loved Blood and Soil but Not the Mind Chapter 10: Extinction of the Social Darwinism Canard Part III: The Final Lessons of Liberty Chapter 11: The Ethologists' Unpaid Debts to Spencer and Sumner Chapter 12: Overthrowing the Anarchists Chapter 13: Natural Liberty Requires Adherence to Truth Conclusion