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124 FASCISM: THE BLOODY IDEOLOGY OF DARWINISM

The evolutionist and materialist Carl Vogt, a contemporary of Darwin
and a Geneva scholar of the mid nineteenth century, also held disparaging
views regarding women. "We may be sure that wherever we perceive an
approach to the animal type the female is nearer to it than the male" he wrote.
"Hence we should discover a greater [apelike] resemblance if we were to take
a female as our standard." 70
Many evolutionists, following Darwin, have continued to maintain
that women are inferior to men, both biologically and intellectually. Some
evolutionists have even classified men and women as two distinct
psychological species: males were homo frontalis, females homo parietalis. 71
One evolutionist, Elaine Morgan, noted that Darwin had motivated men into
researching the reasons why women were "manifestly inferior and
irreversibly subordinant". 72
Paul Broca (1824-1880), an evolutionist physicist and anthropologist,
was particularly interested in the differences in intelligence and brain size
between men and women, ascribing their inferior intelligence to the smaller
size of their brains.
Another follower of Darwin, the evolutionist social psychologist
Gustave Le Bon, wrote;

In the most intelligent races ... are a large number of women whose
brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed
male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for
a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. ... Women ... represent
the most inferior forms of human evolution and ... are closer to
children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in
fickleness, inconsistency, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity
to reason. Without a doubt there exist some distinguished women ...
but they are as exceptional as the birth of any monstrosity, as, for
example, of a gorilla with two heads; consequently, we may neglect
them entirely. 73
Therefore, at the basis of fascism's disparagement of and contempt for
women lies the theory of Darwinism. Mussolini's taking away of women's
social rights, and Hitler's building of "breeding farms" to reproduce the
superior race and obliging young girls to sleep with SS officers, are all
reflections of fascists' attitudes to women. Both Darwinists and fascists are
enemies of women. They see them as an inferior and backward species, and
both despise them, as well as employing discriminatory and oppressive