Argument Contrary to common portrayals of social Darwinism as a transference of laissez-faire values, the widely read evolutionism of Japan's foremost Darwinist of the early twentieth-century, Oka Asajir (1868-1944), reflects a statist outlook that regards capitalism as the beginning of the nation's degeneration. The evolutionary theory of orthogenesis that Oka employed in his 1910 essay, The Future of Humankind, links him to a pre-Darwinian idealist tradition that depicted the state as an organism that develops through life-cycle stages. For Oka, laissez-faire capitalism marked the moment when the state began to decline toward extinction due to the orthogenetic overdevelopment of hitherto subordinate individual egos. Because conservative bureaucrat-intellectuals had been drawing upon this same organicist- developmental tradition since the 1880s in an attempt to forestall the social ills of industrialism, Oka's call for statist measures, including eugenics, to lessen and delay the atomizing, enervating, and corrupting influence of capitalism articulated the political vision of officialdom. Statist evolutionism, not social Darwinism, might be the term that best describes Oka's approach.
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机译：论点与社会达尔文主义作为自由放任主义价值观的转移的一般描述相反，日本二十世纪初最重要的达尔文主义者冈朝治（1868-1944）的广为流传的进化论反映了以资本主义为起点的国家主义观点国家的堕落奥卡（Oka）在1910年的论文《人类的未来》（The Future of Humankind）中采用的骨生成进化论将他与达尔文主义前的唯心主义传统联系起来，后者将国家描述为在生命周期阶段发展的有机体。对于奥卡来说，自由放任的资本主义标志着国家由于迄今从属个体自尊的过度发展而开始走向灭绝的时刻。由于自1880年代以来保守的官僚机构一直在利用这种相同的有机主义发展传统，以试图防止工业主义的社会弊端，因此，冈冈呼吁采取包括优生学在内的国家措施，以减轻和延迟雾化，激化和破坏影响力资本主义的观点阐明了官僚主义的政治视野。统计学家进化论而非社会达尔文主义可能是最能描述奥卡方法的术语。
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