(Written against the backdrop of the Communist seizure of ...)
Written against the backdrop of the Communist seizure of power in the Soviet Union, this remarkable work by America's leading early twentieth century racial theorist studies the root causes of Communism and the destruction of civilized society. It focuses on the downbreeding of existing European populations and of how the worst elements of society are continually outbreeding the best, leading to lower average IQs and civilizational levels. Although directed at Soviet-era communism, the reader will find the discussions on racial and social degeneration appallingly familiar and present in twenty-first century Western societies. Finally, a solution to the problem is proposed: not repression, but eugenics. "Where but in the slender ranks of the racially superior-those 'A' and 'B' stocks which, in America for example, we know to-day constitute barely 13 1/2 per cent of the population? It is this "thin red line" of rich, untainted blood which stands between us and barbarism or chaos."
(The New World of Islam is a classic Islamic studies text ...)
The New World of Islam is a classic Islamic studies text by Lothrop Stoddard. The entire world of Islam is to-day in profound ferment. From Morocco to China and from Turkestan to the Congo, the 250,000,000 followers of the Prophet Mohammed are stirring to new ideas, new impulses, new aspirations. A gigantic transformation is taking place whose results must affect all mankind.
(The shocking true story of the race war in the French col...)
The shocking true story of the race war in the French colony of San Domingo, now called Haiti, which raged from 1789 to 1805. During this time, 450,000 Negro slaves, 39,000 whites and 27,500 mixed-race persons slugged it out in a bloodthirsty conflict which ended with the complete extermination of every white person on the Caribbean island—and created the state of Haiti. The lessons contained in this book—on the ills of slavery, the incompatibility of the races, and the dangers of liberal ideology—are more valid today than ever before.
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 - May 1, 1950) was an American political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, eugenicist, pacifist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of books which are cited by historians as prominent examples of early 20th-century scientific racism. During World War II he wrote Into the Darkness, about the effect of war on Nazi Germany. Stoddard was relatively nonpartisan in his coverage of the Nazi regime, but he did express concern for the welfare of the European Jewish community, foreseeing intense violence against the Jews.
(This 1935 book is the most suppressed and rare book ever ...)
This 1935 book is the most suppressed and rare book ever by Stoddard, America's famous racial thinker. This is a racially-based interpretation of worldwide events leading up to the First World War. It has sections dealing with North and South America, Europe, Russia, Asia, the Near East, and Africa. Although many of the events to which the book refers are now of historical interest, the racial understanding which this book brings to world events is timeless. The underlying theme of the book-that all races have adopted white technology and culture with varying degrees of success, and that this will have serious results for all races-has taken on added meaning since this book was written.
The Rising Tide of Color: Against White World Supremacy
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A far-seeing survey of race and history, T. Lothrop Sto...)
A far-seeing survey of race and history, T. Lothrop Stoddard’s epic 1921 work did not refer to a belief that whites should rule over other races, but merely that, as he put it, a man who in 1914 looked at a world map “got one fundamental impression: the overwhelming preponderance of the white race in the ordering of the world’s affairs.”
It was this dominance, Stoddard said, which was coming to an end because of the massive demographic swings which he foresaw over the coming decades—just one of the many accurate predictions made in this book which have allowed it to stand the test of time.
Starting with an overview of the different races of the world and their traditional homelands, Stoddard pointed out how their technological backwardness allowed what he called the “white flood” to colonize all four corners of the earth.
However, he continued, the transfer of European technology, learning and know-how to the nonwhite races of the earth had now empowered them, and as a result, the era of white domination was surely coming to an end.
The advent of the First World War, he said, had “shattered white solidarity” and inflicted huge damage upon the European people, weakening them in the coming struggle for survival.
He warned that any policy which promoted open borders, and unrestricted immigration, would lead to the final and irreparable destruction of any European nation.
He also foretold that the massive population boom of the Third World would sooner or later come pressing against all white nations’ borders—driven forward by the Third World’s inability to maintain order and progress, and the offer of a better life under white rule which they claimed to dislike so much.
He was also one of the few to recognize the growing threat of militant Islam, and warned in this book that it would become a major world force.
Stoddard argued that the only way to avoid a worldwide racial catastrophe was to educate people on the issue of race and the need for racial improvement through eugenics.
Finally, he concluded that the only way to achieve racial peace was to abandon the concept of white supremacy completely, saying:
“We whites will have to abandon our tacit assumption of permanent domination over Asia, while Asiatics will have to forego their dreams of migration to white lands and penetration of Africa and Latin America. Unless some such understanding is arrived at, the world will drift into a gigantic race-war—and genuine race-war means war to the knife. Such a hideous catastrophe should be abhorrent to both sides.”
Front cover: A reproduction of the original 1921 edition dust jacket cover.
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was an American historian, journalist, eugenicist, political theorist and racial theorist. He wrote The Revolt Against Civilization (1922) where he put forward the theory that civilization places a growing burden on individuals. Stoddard advocated immigration restriction and birth control legislation in order to reduce the numbers of the underclass while promoting the growth of the middle and upper classes.
Background
Theodore was born on June 29, 1883 in Brookline, Massachussets, United States, the only child of Mary Hammond (Brown) Stoddard, originally of Bangor, Maine, and John Lawson Stoddard, a noted lecturer and travel writer. The Stoddards took pride in their lineage, which extended to seventeenth-century Massachusetts, where Solomon Stoddard held the pastorate in Northampton. Although his parents separated when he was five, Lothrop (as he was known) enjoyed frequent boyhood travels with his father.
Education
In 1901, after preparatory education at Cutler's School in Newton, Massachussets, he entered Harvard College, where he studied history, government, and European languages. Upon graduating magna cum laude in 1905, he moved to Boston University to study law, and in February 1908 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
In the fall of 1909, therefore, Stoddard entered Harvard graduate school to train for a new career as publicist and advisor on world affairs. He studied under Archibald Cary Coolidge and Robert Matteson Johnston and received his M. A. in 1910 and his Ph. D. in 1914.
Career
Six months after Stoddard completed his doctorate, the war he had predicted broke out. In public lectures, in an outpouring of magazine and newspaper articles, and in two political guidebooks - Present-Day Europe (1917) and Stakes of the War (1918, with Glenn Frank) - he earnestly sought to fulfill his mission of objectively outlining Europe's political complexities to an innocent American public.
In October 1918 Stoddard took over the foreign affairs department of the magazine World's Work, and for two years, as the nation debated the peace settlement, he found ample scope for his chosen profession. But these informed and balanced analyses brought Stoddard little recognition.
It was in the sullen atmosphere of the early 1920's, as the country rejected international crusades and sought to safeguard itself at home, that Stoddard's four books and numerous articles on the race issue won him wide renown. Of the books, the first and most successful was The Rising Tide of Color Against White-World-Supremacy (1920).
In the preface he stated that around 1910 he had become convinced that race relations would profoundly affect the course of world politics and history. His doctoral thesis, published in 1914 as The French Revolution in Santo Domingo, had dealt in part with "the first great shock between the ideals of white supremacy and race equality. "
Written under the inspiration of the leading race theorist, Madison Grant, The Rising Tide of color was concerned less with the dangers to America of the "new immigration" than with the threat posed to all of white civilization by the debilitating effects of World War I and the new expansionist desires of the yellow and brown races.
The New World of Islam (1921) further documented these ominous stirrings.
In The Revolt Against Civilisation (1922) Stoddard shifted his morbid fears from the inferior races to inferior men, who were seeking to overthrow their cultured masters in the brutal, mindless guise of Bolshevism. Eugenics was his ultimate solution. The last of these hereditarian polemics, Racial Realities in Europe (1924), was a standard comparison of the manly, creative Nordic "race" with the lesser Alpine and Mediterranean "races. " Few of these ideas were original with Lothrop Stoddard.
Although he wrote two further books extolling white solidarity, the next fifteen years saw him writing on a wide range of topics: a history of children, a chatty collection of anecdotes about luck, a well-researched biography of Tammany boss Richard Croker, travel books, and two polemical works advising the United States to stop investing in Europe and to start finding friends in the world.
His fascination with world affairs induced him to move from Brook-line, Massachussets, to Washington, District of Columbia, in the early 1930's, but he continued to summer at West Dennis, Massachussets, on Cape Cod.
The outbreak of World War II provided new professional opportunities. Stoddard's racial theories made him persona grata to the Nazis, and for six months from late 1939 he served as special correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance in Germany. The resulting book, Into the Darkness (1940), was a fair and honest appraisal of the Nazi state, but not without hints of admiration for Hitler's eugenic experiments. On his return, Stoddard served for five years as a foreign policy expert for the Washington Evening Star.
He died of cancer in the George Washington University Hospital in Washington at the age of sixty-six.
Achievements
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard authored over two dozen works, most related to race and civilization about the dangers posed to American culture and way of life by immigration and the threat posed to all of white civilization by the worldwide rebellion of colored peoples.
Like many contemporaries, he fused a crude grasp of Mendelian genetics and European anthropology with a traditional faith in Anglo-Saxon culture. But the peculiar pungency of his style, the global breadth of his vision, and his pose of informed expertise made Stoddard a most influential propagandist. Invitations to congressional hearings, praise from President Harding, and many favorable reviews of his books, all suggest that Stoddard was important in rationalizing for his country its new immigration laws.
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A far-seeing survey of race and history, T. Lothrop Sto...)
Views
He believed that social progress was impossible unless it was guided by a "neo-aristocracy" made up of the most capable individuals and reconciled with the findings of science rather than based on abstract idealism and egalitarianism.
Although he frequently garbed himself in the mantle of disinterested science - especially in Scientific Humanism (1926) - Stoddard's fond yearnings for colonial America and his brooding fears of imminent cataclysm reveal powerful emotions. Isolated in an urban America that was increasingly cosmopolitan and equalitarian, he found relief only in the dogma of blood. The final passage of immigration restriction in 1924 restored Lothrop Stoddard's hopes as it reduced his audience.
He opposed what he saw as the disuniting of the white peoples through intense nationalism within Europe.
Quotations:
Stoddard wrote:
"It is perfectly true that our present immigration policy does (and should) favor North Europeans over people from other parts of Europe, while it discriminates still more rigidly against the entry of non-white races. But the basic reason for this is not a theory of race superiority, but that most fundamental and most legitimate of all human instincts, self-preservation - rightly termed "the first law of nature. "
Membership
Stoddard was a member of the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Academy of Political Science.
Personality
He was a tall, dignified man with a refined, angular face and clipped moustache.
Interests
He busied himself with landscape gardening, outdoor sports, and stamp collecting.
Connections
He married Elizabeth Guildford Bates of Dorchester, Massachussets, on April 16, 1926. There were two children, Theodore Lothrop and Mary Alice. His first wife died in 1940, and on January 4, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he married Zoya Klementinovskaya.
