#88 Solomonpanting:

And the epitome of that central planning would be those communist entities we’ve come to love so well. I thought they held “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” in high regard, and that doesn’t sound very Darwinist to me.

Pure Communism is supposed to be the end result of human social evolution. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is only the means toward that end. German, Italian, and Spanish Fascism in the early-to-mid 20th century, while in many ways practically indistinguishable from Soviet-style Communist Socialism to the average citizen (i.e. they were all centrally-planned top-down autocracies), was the end unto itself. So-called “Social Darwinism” was at the core of these Fascist ideologies, especially in Germany.