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

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Fri Feb 3 17:19:23 PST 2006


There are precedents in the U.S. for racism plus socialism. The early SP-USA, for one. One could imagine how that flowed into eugenics. On the sex thing, I couldn't say.


> 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 <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>

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