Völkisch Politics of Ancient Sparta

✠ EUGENIC SUPERIORITY: Deformed or otherwise weak infants would be cast into a chasm after failing postpartum evaluation, as attested by Plutarch. It was not unheard of for older, married men to share their wives with younger & more virile peers, for the sake of conceiving the fittest children.

✠ COMMUNALIZED SLAVERY: Descendants of a conquered tribe formed the majority of society, relinquishing portions of their harvests to satiate the agrarian needs of citizens & freemen, while also acting as a source of domestic servants to households & institutions.

✠ DYSGENIC INFERIORITY: Every autumn a ritualized war was declared against these chattel, during which the elite among citizens-in-training would rove around to cull the fittest males they happened upon, as a measure against future insurrection.

✠ FEMININE EQUALITY: Compared with other Greeks, Spartan women married later, moved freely, dressed liberally, were educated, expressed themselves publicly, held property in their own right and were treated equally in divorce.

✠ MILITARIZED POLITY: The most famous attribute of the city-state which bears no need rehashing; the citizenry's lives were devoted to the common societal good of maintaining their hegemony over the slave population.