NY Times Book Review, October 5, 2003
'War Against the Weak': Here Comes the Master Race
By DANIEL J. KEVLES
WAR AGAINST THE WEAK
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race.
By Edwin Black.
Illustrated. 550 pp. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. $27.
Eugenics -- the idea of
Weren't there a lot of people on the left in to
eugenics back in the early parts of the 20th Century?
Didn't the Socialist Party have segregated locals?
Wasn't eugenics part and parcel of certain strands of
reasoning in the birth control debate?
Please do correct me, if I'm wrong, but I seem to
Weren't there a lot of people on the left in to
eugenics back in the early parts of the 20th Century?
Yes, for example Trotsky moots the possibility - his argument was that we
would want to prevent malformed and badly formed children as much as
possible in the future using scientific knowledge.
But you could well imagine that the
bourgeois would like to impose private property relations on this activity,
such that beautiful, intelligent, healthy babies are only for the propertied
classes, and the proles can spurt uglies.
This is why beautiful women should never marry for money :)
Joanna
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Didn't the Socialist Party have segregated locals?
Which SP are you talking about ?
The Socialist Party of America is what I'm talking
about, not the Socialist Labor Party nor the I.W.W.
The AFL did recognize segregation in its structure as
far as
