Hunting Down Social Darwinism Will This Canard Go Extinct

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 59 izationsas socialDarwinists—“BecauseSumnerwasableto investhis pseudoscientific theor ...

60 Chapter 3 equality:SocialDarwinismandracism.Imperialistshadlongbeentroubledby the com- monandoftenviolentrefusalof nativepeop ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 61 Take,for instance,RobertWright,a contributingeditortoThe NewRepublicmagazine. To his ...

62 Chapter 3 the expenseof the wealthierclasses” (emphasisKidd’s). In a just socialsystem“the general tendencymustbe expectedto ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 63 burdenedfellowcountrymen.’”^64 AndBlackdoesnot deignto admitthat Holmesvocally oppos ...

64 Chapter 3 Holmes’s standis not unexpectedto thosewhoknow,as RobertBannisterdoes,that Holmes“typicallymentionedSpenceronlyto c ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 65 mentintervention.. .” ThissuggeststhatDr. Mooreneedsto takea closerlookat Holmes’s r ...

66 Chapter 3 But right-wingcomedianEvanSayet(b. 1960)agreeswithFoxman.Sayetdumpson the eighteenth-centuryrationalphilosophes,as ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 67 call fromBookOnethatit wasthe Frankfurtschoolof culturalMarxistthought,led by Theodo ...

68 Chapter 3 aissanceand Enlightenment,thosetwo historicalperiodswerebut a fractionof the entire spanof historythroughoutwhichhu ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 69 practice.As boththe pro-slaveryandanti-slaverypriestscitedarbitrarymythologyin their ...

70 Chapter 3 liberalWesternsocietywhichtracedits beginningsto the principlesof the Enlighten- ment...”^120 Unsurprisingly,though ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 71 NowconsiderAlanS. Milward(b. 1935),a historianat the LondonSchoolof Econom- ics. He ...

72 Chapter 3 TheThreeProphetsof the ThirdReich Holdingparticularlystrongswaywiththe NaziswerethreeRomanticistGermanintel- lectua ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 73 Romantics...calledfor a returnto the higher,transcendentreality,andfor intuitionas a ...

74 Chapter 3 As University Paris Quest-Nanterre La Défense professor Emmanuel Fayepara- phrasesHeidegger’s bookBeingand Time, “a ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 75 turn-of-the-twentieth-centuryAmericanphilosopherto becomea cheerleaderfor militar- i ...

76 Chapter 3 fromthe Britishislandsand NorthAmerica.... The racismof Fiskeis hardlydistinguish- ablefromthe genocidalracismof Hi ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 77 P. Maieret al. 2003,659. C. Sagan1995,260. E. O. Wilsoncoinedthe term“sociobiology, ...

78 Chapter 3 Spencer1910b,116. Thisis also qtd. by Bannister1988,51. Spencer 1978 vol. 2. Spencer1981d,187,andonlineat http://t ...