3. An example: Beyond This Horizon (1942) is an anti-Nazi novel which also (quite sincerely) argues for eugenics & social credit economics.
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4. "Beyond This Horizon" imagines a utopia where all social problems are solved by the wise application of eugenics & Social Credit.
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5a. A slight digression on Social Credit, which I see as both a form of vernacular Keynesian & a crackpot scheme appealing to far right.
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5b. The useful part of Social Credit: belief there was a disjunction between production & currency, emphasis on consumption as solution.
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5c.It's the focus on fiance capital as the scapegoat for all of capitalism's problems that made Social Credit attractive to the far right.
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6. In "Beyond This Horizon" bad-guys are would-be-Nazis who want to use eugenics not for overall social good but their own elite interests
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7. Only Robert Heinlein would be crazy enough to write an anit-Nazi novel that also advocates Eugenics & Social Credit.
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8. Or consider "Farnham's Freehold" (1964) a novel with ostensibly anti-racist agenda which is hard not to read as racist.
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9. Plot of "Farnham's Freehold" includes a future America controlled by slave-owing black cannibals.That's Heinlein's case for Civil Rights!
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