How Did Social Darwinism Contribute To The Downfall Of A Country

A country and its economy can’t become successful and powerful without exploiting and excluding people. The country’s economy is dependent on making use of workers to produce capital, and this makes the country successful and powerful. Without exploiting or excluding people, a country won’t be able to be a powerful self-sufficient economy which will in turn lead to an economic downfall that would devastate a country. The purpose of exploiting and excluding people is to benefit a country by allowing it to economically expand. This explains why a country’s mindset is to prioritize economic success and power. The country prioritizes this goal by exploiting people to work only for their interests and also by excluding certain minorities that pose
This reflected the comparison between the struggling workers and the successful owners. The practices of Social Darwin gave more justification for governments to exploit and exclude as they only looked at the positive outcome of slavery. This outcome was due to slaves providing the country with product, which was a major benefactor to the economy as America began vastly growing with wealth. Although slavery flourished the economy with wealth; white abolitionists and some republicans didn’t support the unethical treatment of slaves. This led to the rise of Abraham Lincoln, who passed the Emancipation Proclamation. The passing of this document led to controversy with the southern states that led to the creation of Vagrancy Laws. Furthermore, Vagrancy Laws in the south reasserted control over black labor and in theory this was just another form of slavery (Locke and Wright 2021, 405). Even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, the American economy wasn’t holding up as it used to and in order to restore the economy, these Vagrancy Laws were part of a legal justification for the government to continue their revenue through the reenactment of