Social Darwinism and Class Politics

"We are told every day that great social problems stand before us and demand a solution, and we  are assailed by oracles, threats, and warnings in reference to those problems."

Even up to today, William Graham Sumner has a point that still stands. Everyday in the newspaper, computer, magazine, TV or any form of media, we  are faced with social issues that need to be resolved. Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect a person or many members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both. Under certain models of political issues, they are seen as being different from economic issues.One example can be abortions, in which many lives have been lost between the battle of pro life and pro choice. This is a great controversy related to moral values and this is where religion, culture and tradition sets in.

"The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship."

It has  been said up to today: "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Lets take celebrites who have been famous for decades as an example. There are so many people blessed with the talent to sing  or act or play an instrument. But they do not get their chance to become famous and make money, therefore we continuosly see the same faces in the media. Those with "underground talents" do not get the chance to make as much money because the same celebrities hold up position. Another example is high profile celebrites who make a lot of money and spend it on lavish vacations while there are people dying of hunger across the world. The gap between brotherhood will always remain apart because of selfish people. Andrew Carnegie addressed this issue in 1889, and it is still a reoccuring problem till today.

"No great idea has ever been lost. The greatest of human ideas is democracy."

Henry Demarest Lloyd made this point in his "Revolution: The Evolution of Socialism." A democracy is  a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. This is a great invention, because in other countries, the people are governed under communism, which is a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership. This goverment is practiced in countries like Cuba, and people do not have much of a say in what they want to do individually.