Devolution by revolution: Selective genocide ensuing from the French and Russian revolutions

Abstract

Robert K. Graham^1 Foundation for Human Advancement, Escondido, California With the rise of social stratification, Humankind has developed class warfare to heavily dysgenic proportions. The author here provides historic examples of genocide which targetted the mor successful members of society. His examples are primarily drawn from the French and Russian revolutions. Key Words: French revolution, Russian revolution, Russian revolution, Marxism, genocide, dysgenics Throughout the course of half a million years of hominid evolution there is evidence that our ancestors often killed or otherwise supplanted their rivals for control over resources necessary for survival and procreation. Since hominid intelligence rose dramatically during this period it can only be assumed that in general the more intelligent tended to survive in the struggle to survive and procreate. If the mitochondrial DNA theory of human evolution is correct, the ancestors of the living varieties of man practiced a strict racist creed, supplanting these without interbreeding with them. However, whatever treatment was extended to other sub-species (and there is evidence that cannibalism may have been practiced as early as a quarter of a million year ago) it is generally assumed that with rise of in-group altruism, the members of the same human social group only seldom killed each other. In-group altruism promoted group survival, and groups which were less inclined to be supportive of their own members competed less effectively against rival populations, and in the long run would be less likely to survive.2 In small inbreeding human groups, we might expect a heavily homogenized genetic pattern to have existed. Only when mankind progressed to the level of cultivating or advanced herding or fishing societies did the more successful groups expand and incorporated less successful populations, for agriculture made captive labor useful. Territorial expansion and the incorporation of less successful populations as serfs or slaves led to greater genetic diversity within territorial areas. This meant that the less competent and less intelligent populations were able to procreate under the protection of the more competent rather than be supplanted by them. More of the less competitive thus survived and reproduce alongside the more competitive, the rate of evolution effectively slowed down. If this hypothesis is correct, it is reasonable to suspect that the rise of empires and slave-holding made possible by agricultural economies resulted in a significant modification of the reproductive patterns normally associated with the evolutionary process. A markedly greater proportion of the less competitive would have begun to survive and propagate. In primitive hunting societies, competition placed a survival value on intelligence, but in agricultural societies, the more intelligent could utilize the labor of the less intelligent to till the ground and harvest crops, and engage in the physical labor of erecting fine buildings designed by the more intelligent. The utility of cheap labor inclined the more intelligent to encourage the reproduction of the less intelligent and to protect them at the same time. Today, technologically-advanced societies have fewer simple agricultural tasks to give to the less intelligent, and as technology advances more positions call for a higher level of intelligent. The complex and genetically heterogeneous modern Western societies face another problem. Not only have they for generations promoted the reproduction of the less intelligent, who in under evolutionary selective processes would have been less inclined to leave progeny behind them, but factors discouraging the reproductive activities of the more intelligent have emerged. The liberation of women from their traditional role of motherhood and child-rearing has enabled the more intelligent to devote their interests to professional careers, with the result that they marry late, if at all, and have fewer children. …