Practice question · True or false
Ratzel’s Lebensraum feeding into Geopolitik is guilt by association.
Hints
- Ask what the theory was built to justify.
- A state described as an organism needing space is not innocent.
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False
Why
The theory was doing exactly the work it was built to do. A state as an organism requiring space to grow is not an innocent proposition that was later misused, it is a justification for conquest, and it was used as one.
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