The social theory of ethics substitutes “society” for God—and although it
claims that its chief concern is life on earth, it is not the life of man,
not the life of an individual, but the life of a disembodied entity, the
collective, which, in relation to every individual, consists of everybody
except himself. As far as the individual is concerned, his ethical duty is to
be the selfless, voiceless, rightless slave of any need, claim or demand
asserted by others. The motto “dog eat dog”—which is not applicable to
capitalism nor to dogs—is applicable to the social theory of ethics. The
existential monuments to this theory are Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.