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Social Darwinism, the theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature.
The major condition in the 1800s that Social Darwinism was used to justify was the condition of massive inequality of wealth. Social Darwinism justified this by arguing that the people got the status in life that they deserved. Social Darwinism held that human society was subject to natural selection (survival of the fittest) just as Darwin said nature was. Social Darwinists argued that those who became rich in human society were the ones who were the most fit.