EUGENICS AND SOCIALIST THOUGHT IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: THE CASE OF JAMES MEDBERY MACKAYE
| Autor: | Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Luca Fiorito, Tiziana foresti |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Eugenics
060106 history of social sciences media_common.quotation_subject Race (biology) Eugenic History and Philosophy of Science 0502 economics and business James Medbery MacKaye Socialism Eugenics Progressive Era 0601 history and archaeology Sociology 050207 economics media_common General Arts and Humanities Biological fitness 05 social sciences Socialism Environmental ethics 06 humanities and the arts James Medbery MacKaye Settore SECS-P/04 - Storia Del Pensiero Economico Happiness Progressive era Ideology Progressive Era General Economics Econometrics and Finance |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 40:377-388 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9656 1053-8372 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1053837218000019 |
| Popis: | The aim of this essay is to assess James Medbery MacKaye’s contribution to socialist thought during the Progressive Era. Largely forgotten today, MacKaye proposed a special version of socialism, which he called “Pantocracy,” based on a peculiar blend of utilitarian and eugenic assumptions. Specifically, MacKaye held that biological fitness mapped to the capacity for happiness—biologically superior individuals possess a greater capacity for happiness—and saw the eugenic breeding of “a being or race of beings capable in the first place of happiness” as a possibility open by the advent of Pantocracy. Incidentally, this essay provides further evidence that the influence of eugenic and racialist beliefs upon the American Progressive Era political economy was so deep-rooted and pervasive that it did cut across traditional ideological boundaries. |
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