[lbo-talk] Eagleton's take (was M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 24 17:54:35 PDT 2010


Not just Germans. It was common in the US (and I assume elsewhere) among nativists who believed that Anglo-American society was under attack by waves of immigrants. Lovecraft (who admittedly considered himself an arch-archconservative and arch-racist even by the standards of his day until his 40s) believed this (until his 40s, when he did a radical about-face. Not meaning to turn this into a thread on a pulp writer, albeit my favorite one.).  

----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>

And certainly during that time many educated Germans embraced a form of social Darwinism that had been popularized by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel, which maintained that. For Haeckel, international relations was characterized by a struggle for existence between the various nations and races of the world. Thus for Haeckel nationalism was applied Darwinism. This idea easily blended with the racialism that was becoming popular in Germany at the same time.

Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant



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