China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 25 07:42:31 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>If this article's info on China's eugenics is accurate, China is moving from
>merely authoritarian capitalistism towards full-out fascism. Folks can
>dismiss this as enemy propaganda - which it may be - but given well
>documented reports of union leaders being sent to mental hospitals, the
>crushing of heterodox religionists, and the authoritian promotion of
>capitalists allied to the party hierarchy, it starts to look like any word
>other than "fascism" would be hard to apply to China

Appalling for sure, but as Marta could tell you, the ideological roots of eugenics are complicated, with earlier leftists guilty, not to mention Progressive Era reformers.

Doug



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