Tony Blair, the very modern eugenicist
NIALL MCCRAE
Back in those heady days of 1997, new prime minister Tony Blair boasted of ‘Cool Britannia’, a modern multicultural country freed from the shackles of social conservatism. ‘We don’t do history’, his press secretary Alastair Campbell said, but the progressive Left has always been obsessed with historical revisionism. As George Orwell wrote, he who controls the past, controls the future.
Decolonisation is a major theme in the ‘woke’ takeover of universities. As the British Empire is harshly and ignorantly reinterpreted as a racist regime, any hitherto venerated figure with colonial involvement must be banished. Correcting past faults by the standards of the present, busts and portraits are removed, lecture halls are renamed, and classic works are deleted from the curriculum.
Imperialism is associated with eugenics. Yet in the early to mid-twentieth century much of the British intelligentsia, particularly those of left-wing ideology, was drawn to this pseudo-scientific endeavour to create a society ridded of tainted stock. .Although eugenics became a bad word after the horrors of Nazi Germany, such policy had been most keenly pursued in US states such as California, where tens of thousands of mentally subnormal and psychiatric patients were involuntarily sterilised in the 1930s.
While biographies of favoured politicians and scholars excuse or overlook their membership of the Eugenics Society, others are severely censured. University College London has taken extraordinary steps to dishonour its great polymath Sir Francis Galton, known as the father of eugenics. This navel-gazing contrasts sharply with an event about one mile away, where a commemorative window was unveiled in 2006 by Tony Blair at the London School of Economics. George Bernard Shaw had not merely a passing interest in eugenics: he introduced the idea of quiet euthanasia by means of the gas chamber.
Born in Dublin in 1856, Shaw moved to London aged 20. Struggling to make ends meet, in 1884 he joined the Fabian Society, using his wit as an open-air speaker. By the 1920s he was simultaneously a popular playwright and a fervent activist in the cause of socialism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, although the Pears’ Cyclopaedia of the following year described his plays as ‘tantalising brilliant and effective in parts, but just as tantalisingly inefficient as dramatic entireties’. Among his widely-read political works was The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, which made Marxism accessible to millions. But for all his literary talent, Shaw was a ‘useful idiot’ for the Soviet regime.
It is well known that the British Left was mesmerised by the Russian communist venture, but historians have too readily excused this as naïve idealism. The likes of George Lansbury and Jimmy Maxton lauded not only the purportedly egalitarian system, but also the ruthless eradication of ‘counter-revolutionaries’. The Soviet Union had many enthusiasts at the London School of Economics, which opened in 1921. The most prominent founder was Shaw, who urged a Bolshevik-style revolution in Britain. As historian Giles Udy noted in Labour and the Gulag, ‘little-known or mentioned today’, Shaw ‘had a brutal and cruel streak to which the written record abundantly attests’.
Shaw believed that Stalin was following an uncompromising Fabian approach to communism. Defending execution of political criminals, Shaw remarked: ‘a well-kept garden must be weeded’. In 1931 Shaw visited Moscow, where he was fêted and all his preconceptions confirmed. Here was the future for mankind: rationally planned, and unsentimental. The workshy deserved to be sent to the gulag, where their labour would be exploited and exhausted. For a conservative thinker or politician to have used the term ‘social parasites’ would never be forgiven, but Shaw is strangely excused.
When the show trials began in Moscow in 1937, Western sympathies were severely tested: here were pioneers and principal figures of the Soviet Union admitting guilt for incredible crimes, surely under duress. Shaw, however, held the line: –
On the top of the ladder is a very trying place for old revolutionists who have had no administrative experience…They often have to be pushed off the ladder, with a rope around their neck.
Heinous crimes against humanity were acceptable to Shaw, who scoffed at the sanctity of life. Indeed, a major appeal of communism was its godlessness and hostility to Christian mores. Like Richard Dawkins today, Shaw was a militant atheist, who wanted children of religious parents removed to orphanages. Back in 1910, he considered how society could dispose of large numbers of undesirable people in the most efficient way: ‘I appeal to the chemists to discover a human gas that will instantly and painlessly’. As well as the mentally and physically handicapped, this ‘lethal chamber’ would have use in exterminating antisocial elements, including political opponents.
How can such abhorrence be given a free pass while Galton is demonised? As a socialist, Shaw benefits from the Manichean law: he was on the side of good, and must have meant well. Tony Blair, in his address at the LSE commemoration, declared that ‘a lot of the values that the Fabians and George Bernard Shaw stood for would be very recognisable, at least I hope they would, in today’s Labour Party’.
Blair was busy during the Covid-19 scam, which was not primarily an act of eugenics, but certainly contributed to depopulation, through deaths caused by malevolent healthcare policies but also through reduced fertility resulting from prolonged ‘social distancing’ and vaccine damage. A proponent of pseudo-medical apartheid, Blair asserted that ‘vaccinated and non-vaccinated people should have different freedoms’. The old tactic of divide and rule was applied, while getting society to police itself.
Covid-19 was, as intended, a giant stride towards a technocracy, a new world order of the masses controlled by a totalitarian elite. Blair, when leading the New Labour (new meaning Fabian) government, often spoke of making idealism into realism. He may have been hinting at Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Practical Idealism, a radical text on demographic and social engineering, written around the same time as the inception of the London School of Economics.
President Donald Trump named Blair as the man to rebuild Gaza. Is the Palestinian enclave, destroyed by Israeli bombing and its population decimated, to be a model for the wider world?
George Bernard Shaw had Pygmalion and Tony Blair had his ‘Britpop’ soundtrack, but behind the theatrical facade lurks unspeakable evil.
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