The idea of creating "better humans" presuppose qualifying what is "better" and according to the founder of the eugenics movement, "better" is a class and social construct based on economic status and productive worth for capital. Productive worth for capital is called survival of the fittest. Those who cannot find a buyer of their labor power are deemed unfit, with their idleness serving as prove of "unfitness" rather than prove of capital inherent inability to grow human productiveness free of crisis and catastrophe.
One can simply punch in the word Eugenics and read the wealth of material on this subject. Eugenics is a social movement reacting to capital's creation of a surplus population whose value to society - organized as capital, could only be realized during periods of industrial boom. ******* CB: On the other hand, there is some truth to the old saying that the rich get richer and the poor get children under capitalism. That is, those who are poor because they have trouble selling their labor power may end up more fit than the rich in Darwinian sense of fitness : being represented by children in future generations. The relative surplus population may be more Darwinan fit than the rich, with all their geniuses. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
