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Re: "We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive."
Societies that allow for the most variance are more likely to survive, which in sociological jargon, I think, is "equality". Equality is freedom and it's upheld by natural rights and justice. Revolution is sort of like selection. I suppose to avoid a violent coup type of revolution, one needs democracy. Likewise, socialism helps avoid one type of natural selection. Immigration rate might express a sort of sexual selection.
Obviously that's a not fully developed explanation of the idea, but I think that's the basics of it.
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