The ‘New man’ under Communism would be unlike any creature ever known. Trotsky thus depicted him in his Literature and Revolution:
He will want to master first the semi-conscious and then also the unconscious processes of his own organism: breathing, the circulation of the blood, digestion, reproduction, and, within the necessary limits, will subordinate them to the control of reason and will. Even purely physiological life will become collectively experimental. The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the state of radical reconstruction and will become in its own hands the object of the most most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training…Man will make it his goal to master his own emotions, to elevate his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent…to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman if you will…Man will become incomparably stronger, wiser, subtler. His body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more melodious. The forms of life will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, Goethe, Marx. And beyond this ridge, other peaks will emerge.
For such an ideal, was it not worth sacrificing the sorry specimins that populated the corrupt world? Seen form this perspective, existing humanity was debris, the refuse of a doomed world, and killing it off was a matter of no consequence.
Richard Pipes, Communism, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002, p.68