On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:42:00 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
writes:
> > 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.
That sort of combination of views was by no means uncommon at that time. See G.B. Shaw who likewise combined Fabian socialist views with eugenecism, as did Bertrand Russell too.
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> Yoshie Furuhashi
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