I expressed myself wrong. I meant that his mentality seems to stem from Hobbes' theory about the State of Nature (which, in turn, influenced also the survival of the fittest mentality). The two theories - bellum omnium contra omnes and survival of the fittest (Darwinism, sort of) - have the same philosophical root (as per Bertrand Russell, On the Philosophy of Science, 1965), even if they are not exactly the same - semantics, of course, since one can easily see Survivalism as a direct consequence of the natural right to war expressed by Hobbes. However, Klingmann, in that sequence, is simply discarding the most popular application of the negative Hobbesian state of nature, while endorsing its more noble philosophical counterpart.
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