[grey_whiskers]

Thanks for the updates...based on your post, I see that the left often rejects and/or fears Darwinism; my question is how many people on the explicitly pro-Darwin side use Darwinism as a bludgeon against collectivism...

(trivial way to do so is via the logic in The Wisdom of Crowds, btw)

Cheers!

[Stultis]

my question is how many people on the explicitly pro-Darwin side use Darwinism as a bludgeon against collectivism...

Probably many do so implicitly, that is along the line the author suggests: arguing that collectivism is inconsonant with human nature, and its imposition destroys invaluable human institutions (socially) evolved over hundreds and thousands of years.

But probably few would employ "Darwinism" explicitly. Most on the pro-Darwin side would see employing scientific theories in ethical or political arguments as invalid.