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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, ''[https://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, ''[https://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,” ''[https://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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