Evolutionary Social Change: A Comparison of Marx and Spencer.
This paper looks at understanding the nature of evolutionary social change in Marx by a direct comparison with Spencer, the ultimate social evolutionist. The theories of Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer concerning social evolution are very different. Marx tends to consider the social group while Spencer considers the individual to a larger extent; however, the theorists both deal with society as a whole rather than individual members and both provide a theory influenced by evolutionary theory. This paper contains an annotated bibliography. 9 pgs. 28 f/c. 9b.
