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==Politics==
 
==Politics==
 
Wells was a [[Fabian socialist]], [[eugenics|eugenicist]] and [[antisemitism|anti-Semite]]. He despised human [[liberty]], sneering, "Consider the clerks and girls who hurry to their work of a morning across [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in [[New York City]], or Hungerford Bridge in [[London]]; go and see them, study their faces. They are free, with a [[freedom]] [[Socialism]] would destroy."<ref>Herbert George Wells, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BvQJAAAAIAAJ New Worlds for Old]'' (The Macmillan company, 1908), p. 192</ref> An apologist for Stalinism, he visited the Soviet Union in 1934 and denied the [[Holodomor]].<ref>Edvard Radzinsky, ''Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives'', (Anchor, 1997) ISBN 0-385-47954-9, pp. 256-259; [http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/communism/com107.html Stalin-Wells talk: The verbatim record and a discussion by G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.M. Keynes, E. Toller and others]</ref> In his advcacy of eugenics, he displayed contempt for human life, writing, "No doubt Utopia will kill all deformed and monstrous and evilly diseased births."<ref>Herbert George Wells, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=w_HY2By17g4C A Modern Utopia]'' (London, Odoms Press Ltd., 1908, reprint: Forgotten Books, 2008) ISBN 1606201840, p. 86</ref> In a 1932 speech at Oxford University, Wells exhorted his audience, “I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis.”<ref>H.G. Wells, “Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit,” ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=NxzTAAAAMAAJ After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation]'' (London: Watts, 1932), p. 24</ref> Elsewhere he wrote, "A careful study of anti-Semitism, prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many Jews," he wrote, "who do not adequately realize the irritation they inflict."<ref>Alan M. Dershowitz, ''[ Chutzpah]'' (Simon and Schuster, 1992) ISBN 0671760890, p. 112</ref>
 
Wells was a [[Fabian socialist]], [[eugenics|eugenicist]] and [[antisemitism|anti-Semite]]. He despised human [[liberty]], sneering, "Consider the clerks and girls who hurry to their work of a morning across [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in [[New York City]], or Hungerford Bridge in [[London]]; go and see them, study their faces. They are free, with a [[freedom]] [[Socialism]] would destroy."<ref>Herbert George Wells, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BvQJAAAAIAAJ New Worlds for Old]'' (The Macmillan company, 1908), p. 192</ref> An apologist for Stalinism, he visited the Soviet Union in 1934 and denied the [[Holodomor]].<ref>Edvard Radzinsky, ''Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives'', (Anchor, 1997) ISBN 0-385-47954-9, pp. 256-259; [http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/communism/com107.html Stalin-Wells talk: The verbatim record and a discussion by G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.M. Keynes, E. Toller and others]</ref> In his advcacy of eugenics, he displayed contempt for human life, writing, "No doubt Utopia will kill all deformed and monstrous and evilly diseased births."<ref>Herbert George Wells, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=w_HY2By17g4C A Modern Utopia]'' (London, Odoms Press Ltd., 1908, reprint: Forgotten Books, 2008) ISBN 1606201840, p. 86</ref> In a 1932 speech at Oxford University, Wells exhorted his audience, “I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis.”<ref>H.G. Wells, “Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit,” ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=NxzTAAAAMAAJ After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation]'' (London: Watts, 1932), p. 24</ref> Elsewhere he wrote, "A careful study of anti-Semitism, prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many Jews," he wrote, "who do not adequately realize the irritation they inflict."<ref>Alan M. Dershowitz, ''[ Chutzpah]'' (Simon and Schuster, 1992) ISBN 0671760890, p. 112</ref>
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* "Big business is by no means antipathetic to Communism. The larger big business grows the more it approximates to Collectivism. It is the upper road of the few instead of the lower road of the masses to Collectivism."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/russiainshadows00wellgoog Russia in the Shadows], p. 178</ref>
    
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