PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE NAZIS & RACISTS, Edward Bellamy, Francis Bellamy,
EUGENICS
A fan of http://RexCurry.net writes: The
association of the pledge with the National Socialist German Workers' Party
is at least skin deep. The stance, presentation, salute and pledge
of allegiance were essentially the same.
The American pledge (1892) does predate the National Socialist German Workers'
Party (1920) by some 28 years. The extended arm salutes varied a bit over
time but was essentially the same. So did the National Socialist German Workers'
Party copy American socialists?
It is significant that the author and promoter of the pledge, Francis Bellamy,
was a self-proclaimed Socialist who wrote extensively of a US that would nationalize
all industry and conscript all men into a full-time military which would
then conquer the world. Sound familiar? These were radical notions at the
turn of the century.
It is also significant that at that time (1899), John Dewey, author of Democracy
and Education, was leading a campaign to turn US public education into an
gigantic propaganda mill for international socialism.
"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the
collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."
Afterwards the U.S. Bureau of Education wrote, "The public schools exist
primarily for the benefit of the State rather than for the benefit of the
individual." This at a time when Germany too was overhauling its school system.
But these were not the only connections with the pledge.
Vermont social scientists in the 1920s and '30s devised a plan to eliminate
the state's "degenerate" bloodlines and replenish "old pioneer stock.
The 12-year survey was developed by an independent team of social scientists
who studied "good" and "bad" families in the state and listed those which
it determined needed to be *eliminated*.
The report was circulated among policymakers at the time and led to the
passage of a 1931 sterilization law.
Yep. The earlier work of Dewey and Bellamy had paid off! The kids were now
grown and thinking like true socialists. The science of human breeding had
branched off from social Darwinism. Eugenics was front stage.
Visit the archives at the Boston Globe, 1999, for details.
This law resulted in the sterilization of several hundred poor, rural Vermonters,
Abenaki Indians and others deemed unfit to procreate.
The model was soon adopted by other states which over the years effected
thousands of Americans. Sound familiar?
So how is this relevant? Because the women's suffrage movement of the latter
1800s had become a socialist enclave which expanded the idea of birth control
to population control.
Borrowing from the work of the social scientists, "Race Building in a Democracy"
was the theme of the 1940 joint meeting of the Birth Control Federation of
America and the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood where it was proclaimed
about the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party...
"We, too, recognize the problem of race building, but our concern is with
the quality of our people, not with their quantity alone."
So, that committee was aware of the goal of the leader of the National Socialist
German Workers' Party to decrease quantity while improving quality.
They differed only in priorities.
Yep. That's THE Planned Parenthood.
A leading feminist at this meeting and a member of the American Eugenics
Society, Margaret Sanger, attracted the attention of the leader of the National
Socialist German Workers' Party who invited Sanger to Germnay to discuss some
ideas.
The rest is history.
So, one bad deed leads to another. Each stage sets the stage for the next
generation. Words mean things.
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The Aryan Path Magazine - Published 1930 Theosophy Co., Ltd. Page 55 "...a
'Religion of Solidarity,' as it was called by Edward Bellamy, example
will not compel alteration of a self-centred programme of living."
From Theosophist Magazine September 1934-December 1934 (under Annie Wood
Besant) - page 323
THE BELLAMY PLAN A copy of the August issue of THE THEOSOPHIST, containing
an article on my husband, Edward Bellamy, written by Fred Bell of the Bellamy
League in South Africa, has just reached me, and I desire to extend my thanks
to you for sending it. Many of Mr. Bellamy's most ardent disciples throughout
the world are Theosophists, and this article, we hipe, may be the means of
calling the attention of others to the beauty and the soundness of his economic
philosophy towards which the world seems now to be steadily moving. (Mrs.)
EDWARD BELLAMY.
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Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism,
1870-1945 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) (Paperback)
by Paul Weindling
Ploetz convinced Rudin that alcohol and tobacco were not only damaging to
individual health but they also poisoned the fitness of future generations.
Rudin can be regarded as the co-founder of German eugenics.
"In 1890 Ploetz married Rudin's sister, Pauline, who was studying medicine.
Ernst Rudin established an abstinence association, Humanitas, for Swiss grammar
schools. Rudin was imbued with reformist ideals similar to those of Ploetz
and the Hauptmanns. Rudin and his fellow schoolboys reinforced their abstinence
by adventorously reading Bebel on women and socialism (the SPD's Party Congress
was held in St Gallen in 1887), medical tracts by Forel and Bunge, and the
utopian writing of Edward Bellamy. There was a vitual epidemic of utopianism.
The linking of utopianism and Lebensreform was a stimulus to biological research."
"Although Ploetz acquired Swiss nationality, his German nationalist convictions
also intensified. In the physiological laboratory of Gaule, where he was completing
his dissertation on heredity, worked the fellow abstinence-campaigner Fick,
who was a hybrid between a democrat and a fervent Pan-German nationalist."
"Fick persuaded them that they could earn well in South Africa where he
had spent five years. Ploetz looked forward to being able to study bush men
as among the lowest human races. However, the couple finally abandoned their
African plans and decided on the United States, where they went in 1890..."
Fick was involved in the founding of the Pan-German league. Ploetz
encountered a strong current of nationalism although he chose not to become
active in Pan-Germanist agitation.
The Ploetzes settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, where they opened a
medical practice and bred chickens. The later moved to Meriden, Connecticutt.
While struggling to establish himself, Ploetz used his free time to write
a book on the potential of 'our race' and on problems of social welfare.
Ploetz hoped to convince emigre German socialists that there was a way to
refute Darwinist criticisms of socialism. Ploetz was in touch with Jacques
Loeb, a radically minded German biologist, who had emigrated because of his
displeasure with social conditions. Ploetz had contacts with the Springfield
Socialist Party, and with socialist journalists in New York. Through his Zurich
comrade, the Nietzschean John Henry Mackay, Ploetz struck up a friendship
with a socialist carpenter, Adolph Gerecke, who was a contributer to German
naturalist journals. Ploetz hoped to use contacts with a German secret lodge
in Connecticutt to obtain the genealogies of its 20,000 members. He formulated
a programme for racial and social reform.
Ploetz's choice of such an apparently unpromising place as Springfield might
be explained by the presence of the utopina author, Edward Bellamy. Bellamy
edited a newspaper in Springfield and wrote the utopian novel, Looking Backward
2000-1887, which seized the imagination of a vast readership. It was published
in 1888, translated into German in 1889, and was popular among socialists.
Perfection was the antithesis of urban Boston of 1887: there was to be a socialist
society based on merit rather than wealth as the main spur to human endeavour.
Bellamy condemned the chaos of liberal self-interest as resulting in 'a horde
of barbarians with a thousand petty chiefs'. There should, instead, be established
an orderly society 'as compared with that of a disciplined army under one
general - such a fighting machine, for example, as the German army under
von Moltke'. State socialism was placed on a medical and biological basis.
The guide to Bellamy's revitalized Boston was a physician, Dr. Leete. He
compared the model society to 'one family'. Marriage was to be based on love
and fitness, and the congenitally deficient would be banned from marriage.
Bellamy admired Galton's 1873 work on 'stirpiculture' (a term pre-dating 'eugenics'
first used by Galton in 1883).(footnote 65 citing S.E. Bowman et al., Edward
Bellamy Abroad (New York, 1962), pp. 151-9; A.E. Morgan, Edward Bellamy (New
York, 1944), p. 158)). The popularity of Bellamy's eugenic utopia coincided
with Ploetz's formulation of a scientific method for its realization. Many
German socialists responded enthusiastically to Bellamy's vision as offering
the basis in evolutionary terms for a classless world community or Volksgemeinschaft.
Bellamy typified how political utopias were reformulate in biological terms.
Social reformers were convinced that if science and medicine were judiciously
applied, utopia was within mankind's grasp.
"The vigour of German science and medicine derived from the emerging industrial
economy..."
1. on Page 72:
"... , medical tracts by Forel and Bunge, and the utopian writings of Edward
Bellamy.43 There was a virtual epidemic of utopianism. The linking of utopianism
and Lebensreform was a stimulus to biological research. Also ..."
2. on Page 76:
"... Ploetz's choice of such an apparently unpromising place as Springfield
might be explained by the presence of the utopian author, Edward Bellamy.64
Bellamy edited a newspaper in Springfield and wrote the utopian novel, Looking
Backward 2000-1887, which seized the imagination of a ..."
3. on Page 77:
"... 68 Ploetz's utopianism drew inspiration from bacteriology and hereditary
biology 6s S.E. Bowman et al., Edward Bellamy Abroad (New York, 1962), pp.
151-9; A.E. Morgan, Edward Bellamy (New York, 1944), P. 158 66 B. Ward Richardson,
Hygeia ..."
4. from Back Matter:
"... Bowman, S.E. et al., Edward Bellamy Abroad (New York, 1962). Bradbury,
S., The Evolution of the Microscope (Oxford, 1967). Brady, ft., The Rationalization
Movement in German ..."
5. from Back Matter:
"... Morel, B.A., Trait des dgnrescences physiques, intellectuelles
et morales de l'espce humaine (Paris, 1857). Morgan, A.E., Edward Bellamy
(New York, 1944). Moses, J., Arbeitslosigkeit. Ein Problem der Gesundheit
(Berlin, 1931). Mosse, G.L., 'The Image of the Jew in ..."
6. from Index:
"... 4o6-8,438,526 Behring, Emil (1854-1917), 33, 83, 114, 160-2, 164, 169,
171, 192, 198, 234 Belgium, 148 Bella Coolla Indians, 54 Bellamy, Edward (1850-98),
72, 76-7, 86 Belzec, 550 Bender, Clara, 455 Bender, 544 Bendix, Kurt (188o-1942),
429, 461 Benjamin, Georg (1895-1942), 353, ..."
Page 72
... held in St Gallen in 1887), medical tracts by Ford and Bunge, and the
utopian writings of Edward Bellamy.43 There was a virtual epidemic of utopianism.
...
Page 76
... choice of such an apparently unpromising place as Springfield might
be explained by the presence of the utopian author, Edward Bellamy. ...
Page 77
... utopianism drew inspiration from bacteriology and hereditary biology
•‘ SE Bowman eta!., Edward Bellamy Abroad (New York, ...
Page 589
Bower, T., Blind Eye to Murder (London, 1981). The Paper Clip Conspiracy
(London, 1987). Bowman, SE et at., Edward Bellamy Abroad (New York, ...
Page 601
Morgan, AE, Edward Bellamy (New York, ‘9a). ...
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... Indians, 54 Bellamy, Edward (185o-98), 72, 76-7, 86 Belzec, 550 Bender,
Clara, 455 Bender, 544 Bendix, Kurt ( ...