[lbo-talk] "The Great Prevalence of Sexual Inversion"!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Hi,
>
> And, worth mentioning, Havelock Ellis, was  a raging white  
> supremacist and eugenicist.
>
> "...Havelock Ellis, known as a sex radical and free thinker, shared  
> Pearson's elitist views, writing in his 1911 eugenicist book, The  
> Problem of Race Regeneration, "These classes, with their tendency  
> to weak-mindedness, their inborn laziness, lack of vitality, and  
> unfitness for organized activity, contain the people who complain  
> they are starving for want of work, though they will never perform  
> any work that is given them." Ellis suggested in the same book that  
> all public relief be denied to second generation paupers unless  
> they "voluntarily consented" to be surgically sterilized."
>
> See:
> http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v09n1/eugenics.html
> Margaret Quigley
> The Roots of the I.Q. Debate: Eugenics and Social Control
> -Chip Berlet

I wonder how Ellis managed to reconcile his socialist view, sex  
radical view, and eugenicist view -- not very compatible with one  
another on the face of them.  Then again, that probably wasn't such  
an uncommon combination.  A Malthusian thought existed among  
leftists, and it still does.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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