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porters of Social Darwinism in Germany. According to him, the ideal social system should be based on

armed conflict: "Man shall be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior; all else is fol-
ly." 79 According to Nietzsche's twisted view, life consisted solely of war, and war contained everything
within it.

Hitler, a fanatical Social Darwinist and great admirer of both Darwin and Nietzsche, put their warlike
views into practice. Combining militarist thinking with the theory of evolution, Hitler said:

The whole of nature is a continuous struggle between strength and weakness, and eternal victory of the strong
over the weak. 80

These ideas advanced by Hitler and others like him were products of a terrible ignorance. Those who
imagined that with the theory of evolution they were basing their militaristic and aggressive thinking on
a scientific foundation were merely deceiving themselves. Yet with the tens of thousands of people they in-

duced to follow them, they inflicted ruin on the world on an unprecedented scale.
In an article titled "The Philosophy and Morals of War," Max Nordau—one of the leaders of the Zionist
movement—identifies Darwin as the primary supporter of war:

The greatest authority of all the advocates of war is Darwin. Since the theory of evolution has been promulgat-
ed, they can cover their natural barbarism with the name of Darwin and proclaim the sanguinary instincts of

their inmost hearts as the last word of science. 81

In Darwin, Marx, Wagner:Critique of a Heritage, Jacques Barzun, a history teacher at Columbia
University, stated that Darwin stoked the fires of militarism and warfare everywhere:

War became the symbol, the image, the inducement, the reason, and the language of all human doings on the
planet. No one who has not waded through some sizable part of the literature of the period 1870-1914 has any
conception of the extent to which it is one long call for

blood... The militarists of the second half of the Social Darwinist logic
century poeticized war and luxuriated in the formed the basis of ruthless
Nazi occupations, during
prospect of it. With relative impunity for them-
which time millions of
Russians were expatriated
for slave labor and more
millions executed for no
crime at all.