China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education

[Chris Kromm]

> >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

Which doesn't make eugenics any less fascist -- it merely points up the more
totalitarian aspects of Margaret Sanger and other birth control advocates,
rather than any sort of progressive character of sterilization, no? Few
people realize the insidiously racist nature of the eugenics/birth control
movement, right through the Population Council into the 1970s -- and in a
more subtle way, today. Many good books and articles on this; Allan Chase's
"The Legacy of Malthus" is probably most accessible.
Chris