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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 249

believed in the necessity of the class struggle; the fascists simply
changed the arena of the struggle concentrating on the idea of the
struggle between races and nations. For example, the German histori-
an Heinrich Treitschke, one of the most important sources for Nazi
ideas and a prominent racist, wrote, "nations could not prosper with-
out intense competition, like the struggle for survival of Darwin." 39
Hitler also said that he had taken inspiration from Darwin's under-

standing of struggle:
The whole world of Nature is a mighty struggle between
strength and weakness–an eternal victory of the strong over

the weak. There would be nothing but decay in the whole of
nature if this were not so. He who would live must fight. He
who does not wish to fight in this world where permanent
struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist. 40

These two social Darwinist ideologies believed that, for a society
to grow strong, struggle and bloodshed are necessary; what they cre-
ated in the 20th century is well known. Countless numbers of innocent
people died; countless others were wounded or maimed; national
economies crumbled; money that used to be spent on health, research,
technology, education and art was spent on arms, on bandages to bind
the wounds caused by those arms and to restore ruined cities. It

became evident as time went on that struggle and terror did not pro-
mote human development but rather caused destruction.

Differences of opinion do not necessitate conflict. On the
contrary, good things can emerge from them

Certainly there are contradictions in the world. Just as in nature
there are light and darkness, day and night, hot and cold, so there are
also contradictions in putting ideas into practice. But a contradiction in
ideas does not necessitate conflict. On the contrary, if contradictions
are approached with peace, understanding, love, compassion and
mercy, good results may be achieved. Everyone who compares his own