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

[Chris Doss]

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