... conditioning, but not to the point of no longer being able to conceive or explain social and cultural facts autonomous from nature.» [
7
]
Haushofer himself, together with Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of the geopolitical discipline, with his political theory of
pan-ideas
overcame the fundamentally ethnic conception of Ratzel's
lebensraum
(among other things, this and his idea of collaboration with the Soviet Union earned him internment in Dachau). Indeed, Haushofer wrote:
«Geopolitics ...
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