What Did Social Darwinism Discourage?
What Did Social Darwinism Discourage? Social Darwinism discouraged government intervention. Did Social Darwinism discourage industrialization? Based on Darwin’s 1859 The Origin of Species, Social Darwinism claimed survival of the fittest based on natural selection in social and cultural settings. … Sumner interpreted Spencer (and thus Darwin) refused to accept industrialization as a progress of freedom.