Page 125 - The Social Weapon: Darwinism

123

tives from their colony of Angola and sent them far across the
sea as “contracted” workers for five years. But very few of them
70
survived long enough to make the return trip. In the great ma-
jority of occupied countries, colonizing powers took for them-
selves such territories and resources as they considered
appropriate and gave them to settlers or companies from their
own countries. They took no interest in the people who had lost
their lands, and totally exploited their workforces, goods and
mineral resources.
From their colonies, the British sent raw materials like cot-
ton, tea and minerals to Britain, and later sent products made
from them back to the colonies, to be sold at high prices. Cotton
from India was processed in Britain, and the sale of Indian cot-
ton was prohibited in India. In other words, they could use only
cotton sold by the British. The Indians were also able to buy only
salt produced by the British.
Another practice of the new imperialism was their belit-
tling and behaving disrespectfully towards rulers of the coun-

tries they colonized. But in earlier times, from the era of
Elizabeth I up until Napoleon, administrators had treated for-
eign leaders equally. The deviant idea of regarding oneself as su-
perior gained increasing strength in 19th-century Europe,
bringing with it insolence and rudeness.
Darwinist imperialists portrayed their colonization of
other nations as the result of their races being “inferior” and
“backward.” According to such claims, the order of the superior
race had to spread across the entire world, and if the world were
to progress, the inferior had to be improved. Put another way,
the colonialist powers alleged that they were bringing “civiliza-
tion” to the lands they conquered. Yet their practices and poli-
cies in no way reflected their claims to be “well intentioned.”

Along with their Social Darwinist ideas, the 19th- and 20th-cen-

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar