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82    THE INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST DARWINISM





                     The Darwinist Foundations of Fascism

                     This philosophy was the intellectual starting point of fas-
                cism, because:
                     1) Darwinism endowed racism with a supposed legitimacy. It
                     proposed the lie that the European white race was superior to
                     other races such as Asiatics, blacks and Turks. By that justifi-
                     cation, it claimed that the superior race could rule the weaker
                     by whatever means.

                     2) Darwinism supposedly justified bloodshed. It claimed that
                     throughout nature, there was a "fight to the death for survival";
                     that human individuals and races also engaged in this; and
                     that it was natural for both the race and the individual to
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