Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs that "Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations.

In fact he was strongly supportive of eugenics like other members of his class. Not surprised this radlib childrens author is a fascist propagandist who obscures class relations like a soulless nerd at Vox.

But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world."[29] Bradbury continued that "By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special."

lol actually yes, I agree with this smarmy shitbrain!. He is most influential because other petit bourgeois failsons needed to learn nazi eugenics beliefs to justify their existence in the borg cube world. These redditors desperately need to pretend like their settler colonialism is "romantic heroic adventure" instead of the parasitic praxis of obviously nonhuman creatures (read George Orwell for a peak into the mind of the petit bourgeois ant colony as it interacts with actual humans). These racist "Tarzan genre" books are classical Jordan Peterson lobster liberalism for the first wave of the most worthless people in human history.

Burroughs strongly supported eugenics and scientific racism. His views held that English nobles made up a particular heritable elite among Anglo-Saxons. Tarzan was meant to reflect this, with him being born to English nobles and then adopted by talking apes (the Mangani). They express eugenicist views themselves, but Tarzan is permitted to live despite being deemed "unfit" in comparison, and grows up to surpass not only them but Black Africans, whom Burrough clearly presents as inherently inferior, even not wholly human. In one Tarzan story, he finds an ancient civilization where eugenics has been practiced for over 2,000 years, with the result that it is free of all crime. Criminal behavior is held to be entirely hereditary, with the solution having been to kill not only criminals but also their families. Lost on Venus, a later novel, presents a similar utopia where forced sterilization is practiced and the "unfit" killed. Burroughs explicitly supported such ideas in his unpublished nonfiction essay I See A New Race. Additionally, his Pirate Blood, which is not speculative fiction and remained unpublished after his death, portrayed the characters as victims of their hereditary criminal traits (one a descendant of the corsair Jean Lafitte, another from the Jukes family).[40] These views have been compared with Nazi eugenics (though noting that they were popular and common at the time), with his Lost on Venus being released the same year the Nazis took power (in 1933).

lobsters are not human, it's no surprise they hate humanity and want to destroy it