Meaning of blood and soil | Babel Free

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A nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States.

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“Originator of the Nazi blood-and-soil racial theory, Richard Walther Darre became Agriculture Minister in July, 1933, and announced that his chief aim was to make Germany independent of the world in respect to her food supplies.”

“Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.”

“Mr. Ramaswamy assailed the idea as a “blood and soil” conception of citizenship, one that is “un-American at its core” and “about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up.””

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