Louis Proyect quoted: > Keynes was director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944. > He described eugenics as “the most important, significant and… genuine > branch of sociology that exists”. He believed overpopulation was causing > “mighty problems” for humankind and he saw eugenics as one possible way > of resolving these alleged problems.
Though it's a truly disgusting vision of the world, eugenics in England and the U.S. was all the rage among liberals before Hitler and his boys made it unpopular. Luther Burbank, Jane Addams, and a lot of others promoted it. Alas, my father was into eugenics. Luckily, as far as I know, he never applied it. > While the romantic numskulls of Nazi Germany are dreaming of restoring > the old race of Europe’s Dark Forest to its original purity, or rather > its original filth, you Americans, after taking a firm grip on your > economic machinery and your culture, will apply genuine scientific > methods to the problem of eugenics. Within a century, out of your > melting pot of races there will come a new breed of men – the first > worthy of the name of Man. > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1934/08/ame.htm so Trotsky was into eugenics, too? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
