Word: fascist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Science for the People cites the recent exploitation of sociobiology by certain neo-fascist groups in Europe as validation for their claims and substantiation of their predictions about the nature and dangers of sociobiology. This is reminiscent of nothing so much as the recent case of the New England seer who foretold the burning of a factory and then went and set the fire. This seems a different category of prophecy than that people usually evince pride in. The use of sociobiology by the European New Right is the direct result of and responsibility of Science for the People...
...various as their own backgrounds, imaginations, and moral visions make it. There are Marxist sociobiologists, as well as feminist, religious, liberal, anarchist, and conservative sociobiologists. Certainly, in the fullness of time it is not impossible for sociobiology to produce a Nazi. But the belief that sociobiology of necessity supports fascist social causes is the child of SFTP, and they no less than we must live with its consequences...
...Sociobiological theory and research deals almost exclusively with the evolved system of adaptations a species shares in common. Contrary to the curiously parallel assertions of SFTP and the neo-fascist groups, explaining behavioral differences between individuals or groups by attributing them to genetic differences between individuals or groups ferences between individuals or groups is not any central element of the paradigm-- most would agree that it is not an element at all. The fields that address such questions are genetics, and the moribund "trait" psychology. Since the paradigm deals with the adaptations of species, it cannot logically be made...
...write in reply to the letter in The Crimson (November 19), which seeks to link the work of E.O. Wilson to its use by reactionary and neo-fascist groups in England and France...
...fact that serious academic work will be blatantly misused, especially for fascist causes, is always a reason for concern. But one has to distinguish the serious and knowledge-seeking inquiry (which is always open to challenge and debate) from that misuse. Unscrupulous persons will always twist material for their ends. In 1942, I was managing editor of The New Leader, a social-democratic weekly. I wrote at that time a number of articles attacking the practice of "Jim Crow" in the American Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone...