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Darwin Lincoln

Posted 13 February 2009 | By chriswhite | Categories: Capitalist Financial Crisis | 1 Comment

Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters by Humphrey McQueen. February 12 is the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Their personal convictions towards slavery were pretty much the same. The name of the former is entangled with Social Darwinism as a doctrine about survival of the fittest. This distortion [...]