Progressivism = Racial Biological Collectivism
Progressives, it seems, have always been obsessed with racial biological collectivism. Whether it was Progressives in the early 20th Century during the so-called Progressive Era (1900-1920) and their mania for eugenics, scientific racism, and race suicide; or today’s Progressives, equally obsessed with identity politics; race, class, gender and queer studies; and intersectionality.
The Progressive Era was a crucial time in American intellectual history. Scholars as divergent as Murray N. Rothbard and G. William Domhoff have documented the impact of thousands of key academics such as Richard T. Ely, Herbert Baxter Adams, and John W. Burgess who received their graduate training in Germany during this period, dominated by the rise of Bismarck’s welfare-warfare state. They returned home imbued with these ideas, which their apt pupils such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson transformed into hard reality. This worship of the newly-discovered wonders of statism, combined with the influx of Darwinian evolutionary naturalism, ”social imperialism,” Fabian socialism imported from Great Britain, the increasing secularization of postmillennial evangelical pietism, all provided the satanic breeding ground for the incubus that emerged as progressivism – complete with its elite notions of centralized political/economic planning, aggressive nationalism, eugenics and the idea of “race suicide. It is a seminal focus of their skewed, maniacal totalitarian world view. Progressives have always insisted upon rule by an elitist professional class of credentialed experts removed from the populist majority of everyday Americans, who they regarded as “deplorables,” “white trash,” or “the unwashed masses.”
Here are some intellectual resources which tell the nefarious backstory:
Eugenics in High School History: Failure to Confront the Past by Thomas F. Cargill
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, by Edwin Black
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine
Eugenics: The Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding, by Charles Benedict Davenport
The Passing of the Great Race, by Madison Grant
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, by Lothrop. Stoddard
Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, by Christine Rosen
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg
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