"Anti-Darwinism" is as close to a concise definition of the Left as you're going to find.
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The left is only anti-darwinian if you conceive of social conditions merely as selective pressure,
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and not at the same time as adaptation, i.e. alleviation of pressure.
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The idea of long-term relief from selective pressure is itself intrinsically anti-Darwinian.
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any and all pressure, yes, the universe just isn't built that way.
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long-term or even permanent relief from specific pressures, however, happens all the time.
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"Specific" being the key word. Malthusian pressures are quantitative (non-specific), and reciprocal to fertility rates.
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fair point, such pressures may recur eternally, but acknowledging this isn't exclusive to the right.
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I'd be more inclined to say, it isn't even general on the right. (But I've certainly never seen it remotely acknowledged anywhere else.)
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I'd say all initiatives aimed at population reduction acknowledge it, even if only tacitly so
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That's a very one-dimensional grasp of the problem though. The twin-fork of Malthusian relaxation is accelerating dysgenics. ...
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... If a population won't expand to the limit of the resource supply, it degenerates until the resource supply collapses back to the limit.
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... Resource slack will be eradicated one way or the other.
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