Ideas do not exist in a sterile vacuum but are often intertwined
and serendipitously related to each other. Such is the case of various
statist doctrines that came to fruition in the 19
th century, and which still dramatically affect our world today. “
Scientific racism,” “
social Darwinism,”
eugenics,
Comtean positivism,
imperialism, and “
social imperialism,” were pseudoscientific rationales for the expansionary and invasive
welfare-warfare state at home and abroad. Intellectuals and politicians in the United States were drawn to
Progressivism by
the same elitist positivism that drew them to
other "social control" rationalizations;
commitment to the explanatory power of scientific social inquiry to get
at the root causes of social and economic problems; the legitimacy of
coercive social control,
deriving from a holist conception of society as prior to and greater than the sum of its constituent individuals; and
the efficacy of elitist social control via expert management of
the state apparatus.
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