How does Social Darwinism reinforce laissez-faire?

Question

This a US history question I have for homework.

Answer 1

A reconsideration alone yields two conclusions, both important although neither groundbreaking. One is that Gilded Age defenders of free market mechanisms, individualism, and laissez faire (so-called "conservatives" but in reality liberals by mid-19th century standards) rarely laced their prose with appeals to Darwinism, and virtually never in the way described in conventional accounts.[2] Rather, they were suspicious if not downright frightened by the implications of the new theory. Such was even the case with Herbert Spencer and his American disciples--the stereotypical textbook social Darwinists--whose world view remained essentially pre-Darwinian. [3] The second conclusion is that New Liberals, socialists, and other advocates of positive government appealed openly and with far greater regularity to Darwinism to support their causes.[4] These appeals typically contrasted "false" readings of Darwin (i.e. of the opposition) with a "correct" one (i.e. their own). Although important in their way, these two points are essentially preliminary.

Answer 2

Social Darwinism is the term being tossed around by liberal think tanks to descrbe Prez Bush's administation. Social Darwinism is about the strongest and the most aggressive getting what they want. Laissez-faire is a term used by historians about a society that has an hands-off approach about what is going on in government. Social Darwinism reinforces laissez-faire in the sense that the Bush Administration is making decision about the global society without interference by any of the other powerful countries, namely Russia, China, England, and France, all members of the UN Secuirty Council.

Answer 3

its misinterpretation of the darwinian theory of "survival of the fittest" . The theory that white race is superior than the other races because they have better toys (technology) was the focus of himler and the SS party and led to the holocaust. Now, would this theory which was condemned by all authority would have reinforce free trade( laissez-faire)?. Think it in an anthrological way. one race is getting everything the other condemned to death.

Answer 4

Darwins work was on the evolution of plants and animals. There is no such thing as social Darwinism.

Answer 5

Boy, it somewhat is a whopper of a query. one element i've got observed is a coldness in ideas-set in the direction of the down-and-out. "whats up, it somewhat is the way of the international." "this is no longer my difficulty." "this is as much as them to get off their butts and straighten themselves out." "The reliable stay and the vulnerable die. recover from it." that's no longer the way it somewhat is everywhere, despite if it appalls me that it exists everywhere.