Progressive scientific socialism embraced social planning as scientific order.

Evidence

English liberal, socialist, and gallant fighter against narrow nationalism, religion, and everything which smacked of a prescientific age - H. G. Wells - pondered throughout his long life and relentlessly preached to his numerous avid readers (“I doubt whether anyone who was writing books between 1900 and 1920, at any rate in the English language, influenced the young so much” - testified George Orwell on Wells’ impact on the minds of the English educated classes) the urgency of “replacing disorder by order” and of placing scientifically informed, planning agencies at the control desk of social development (see Wells, 1984). To Wells, the crowning argument in favor of a planned, socialist society was its affinity (indeed, synonymity) with recognition of the fundamental idea on which all true science is founded: “the denial that chance impulse and individual will and happenings constitute the only possible methods by which things may be done in the world.” Like the scientist, the socialist wants “a complete organization for all these human affairs that are of collective importance… In place of disorderly individual effort, each man doing what he pleases, the socialist wants organized effort, and a plan.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Links early-20th-century eugenic social-planning thought to the vault’s racialization and race-as-social-construction definitions — planning discourse is the mechanism through which populations get racialized.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘scientific’ social planning — not just bigotry — generated racial exclusion; the Wells case complicates a clean progressive/reactionary binary.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 408