Anarchism and evolutionism: Ricardo Mella, constraints from the social group and "sociobiological" creation of a new man

Abstract

One of the essential problems faced by the theoreticians of anarchism was the organization of a future society without a State and a legal system. The solution of the problem was generally connected with an internationalization by the individuals of what may be termed as a «good behaviour». In the Spanish case, Richardo Mella, a Galician anarchist, tackled the problem propping his views on Herbert Spencer's evolutionist ethics. In his case, the shaping of the «new man» —as required by society in the future— constitutes a «sociobiological» creation to be made possible by the application of the lamarckian mechanism to the social universe.