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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
