The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
A suggestion has already been made in an earlier chapter of this
essay which may perhaps be expanded here a little more. It is that
there already exist in the world a considerable number of movements
in industry, in political life, in social matters, in education,
which point in the same direction as the Open Conspiracy. It will be
interesting to discuss how far some of these movements may not become
confluent with others and by a mere process of logical completion
identify themselves with the Open Conspiracy.
Consider, for example, the movement for a scientific study and
control of population pressure, known popularly as the Birth Control
Movement. By itself, assuming existing political and economic
conditions, this movement lays itself open to the charge of being
no better than a scheme of “race suicide.” If a population in some
area of high civilisation attempts to restrict increase, organise
its economic life upon methods of maximum individual productivity
and impose order and beauty upon its entire territory, that region
will become irresistibly attractive to any adjacent festering mass of
low-grade highly reproductive population. The cheap humanity of the
one community will make a constant attack upon the other, affording
facile servility, prostitutes, toilers, hand labour. Tariffs against
sweated products, restriction of immigration, tensions leading at
last to a war of defensive massacre are inevitable. The conquest of
an illiterate, hungry and incontinent multitude may be almost as
disastrous as defeat for the selector race. Indeed one finds that in
discussion the propagandists of Birth Control admit that their project
must be universal or dysgenic. But yet quite a number of them do not
follow up these admissions to their logical consequences, produce
the lines and continue the curves until the complete form of the
Open Conspiracy appears. It will be the business of the early Open
Conspiracy propagandists to make them do so, and to install groups and
representatives at every possible point of vantage in this movement.
And similarly the now very numerous associations for world peace halt
in alarm on the edge of their own implications. World Peace remains
a vast aspiration until there is some substitute for the present
competition of states for markets and raw material, and some restraint
upon population pressure. League of Nations Societies and all forms of
pacificist organisation are either futile or insincere until they come
into line with the complementary propositions of the Open Conspiracy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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