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Title: Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)

Author: Enrico Ferri

Translator: Robert La Monte

Release Date: May 16, 2006 [EBook #18397]

Language: English

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SOCIALISM AND
MODERN SCIENCE

(DARWIN, SPENCER, MARX)

BY
ENRICO FERRI

TRANSLATED BY
ROBERT RIVES LA MONTE

THIRD EDITION

CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
1917

Copyright, 1900

by The International Library Publishing Co.

Table of Contents.

PAGE.
Preface 5
Introduction 9

I.

THE THREE ALLEGED CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN
DARWINISM AND SOCIALISM

Virchow And Haeckel at the Congress of Munich 13
_a_) The equality of individuals 19
_b_) The struggle for life and its victims 35
_c_) The survival of the fittest 49

SOCIALISM AS A CONSEQUENCE OF DARWINISM.

Socialism and religious beliefs 59
The individual and the species 67
The struggle for life and the class-struggle 74

II.

EVOLUTION AND SOCIALISM.

The orthodox thesis and the socialist thesis confronted by
the theory of evolution 92
The law of apparent retrogression and collective ownership 100
The social evolution and individual liberty 110
Evolutio