On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > Social Darwinism (and racism) was not solely, even primarily, a right-wing, > fascist viewpoint in the 100 years after Darwin published (unless you define > racism as right-wing and fascist, which I reject). Social Darwinism (and > racism) was pervasive in the most "progressive" ideological streams until > WWII, and when the historical memory of WWII finally wears off, I am > reasonably sure it will make a big comeback again in the minds of > progressives. >
Anyone care to comment on this? David does raise an important question: why should the right-wing be exclusively accused of social-Darwinism? (On a different note, I am a bit confused about why David thinks social-Darwinism is poised to make a "big comeback". I assume this must be because he expects the new high-throughput DNA micro-arrays to discover the IQ gene and its genetic basis sometime soon...) -raghu. -- Confucius say, dirty book rarely dusty. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
