China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 25 08:33:34 PDT 2001


Chris Kromm wrote:


>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?

Maybe I'm quibbling over mere words, but if socialists and corporate liberals once supported eugenics - and probably many secretly do now, but they're too embarrassed to admit it - then why label it fascist? There's a certain kind of leftist who disdains capitalism for its inefficiency, and thinks they could do a better job managing the thing - and eugenics is part of that.

Doug



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