These movements eventually flowered in the 20th century as the National Socialist and Communist movements. The theory of Evolution also provided a scientific and moral veneer to racism. Racism, would became a science called Eugenics. The eugenic principal is based on the premise that certain races of men are more evolved than others and that mankind as a whole could be helped along the evolutionary process through breeding and elimination. Eugenics is the theory of evolution applied to human beings.
Socialism is the theory of evolution applied to politics and government.
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking at the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world. Darwin's son, Leonard, was president of the Eugenics Education Society in Britain. According to Perloff, about 70,000 people were sterilized before the practice was stopped. American socialists could righteously practice their political faith as they evolved, or in socialist parlance, transformed, man into a new collective.