Articles related to "Social Darwinism"While Charles Darwin made a significant breakthrough in science, some of his followers - Social Darwinists, used his theory to justify conflicts and exploitation of man.
Worried about mankind wasting its potential, Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) unveils the fearful conclusion of the "last man" in his seminal book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1885).
An excerpt from Keating's 1992 speech at Redfern, Sydney. The political climate around Aboriginal rights has certainly changed since then.
This book, the history of an uprising in the backlands of Brazil over a century ago and repeated military failures to crush it is relevant, highly so, to today's world.
In 1915 the United States Marines invaded the Republic of Haiti. This invasion resulted in an occupation that lasted until 1935.
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution has been surrounded in controversy and debate, despite fossil and genomic evidence to support it.
The Holocaust was of the most heinous crimes in history. Thousands if not millions of people have tried to explain how it took place.
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