--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't look to Wells for much in the way of an enlightened > viewpoint on the future of mankind. Wells was pretty much a nutcase > who prefigured the Nazi death camps: > > "Speaking prophetically of the year 2000, Wells claimed his World > State would begin, as he put it, with a "great federation of white > English-speaking peoples." The British empire would join with the > other English-speaking countries such as the United States. > Together, > they would possess "at least a hundred million sound-bodied and > educated and capable men." That military power would dictate a world > union dominated by English-speaking whites. > > Substitute German-speaking Aryans for English-speaking whites and > you > have Nazism's ultimate dream. But the similarities do not end there. > Wells's noted that his World State would pay particular attention to > how Jews adapted to the new order. According to Wells: "If the Jew > has a certain incurable tendency to social parasitism, and we make > social parasitism impossible, we shall abolish the Jew; and if he > has > not, there is no need to abolish the Jew." There is a difference > between Wells's 'change or die' and Nazism's blunter 'die,' but the > difference is not that great. > > On the matter of population control, similarities abound. Nazi > Germany targeted the Slavs of Eastern Europe for abortion, birth > control and other means of population limitation. Wells's scheme > offered the same idea on a far vaster scale. In the "Southern > States" > of the United States, he warned, "the nigger squats and multiplies." > Together with the whites of urban slums, such people > constitute "stagnant ponds of population" that must be drained. He > went still further. In words that cannot be misunderstood, he made > it > clear that the World State would adopt a brutal population policy. > > To the multiplying rejected of the white and yellow civilisations > there will have been added a vast proportion of the black and brown > races, and collectively those masses will propound the general > question, "What will you do with us, we hundreds of millions who > cannot keep pace with you?" > > Wells's plans for the great bulk of the black and brown races were > like those he had for Southern blacks and the white underclass. He > intended to get rid of them by preventing them from having children > by various schemes. Imagine hundreds of millions of people waiting > passively for their fate to be decided by a select few and you get a > hint of the totalitarian terror behind his World State." > > http://tinyurl.com/ydac2u
In other words, Wells was the average liberal Englishman of his time. Thus the popularity of his writing. :-)
