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Marx said of Darwin's book that "This is the book which con-
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tains the basis in natural history for our view." In another let-
ter the following year, this time to Ferdinand Lassalle
(1825-64), Marx said: "Darwin's book is very important and
serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in
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history." Similarly Mao Tse Tung, the founder of Chinese
communism, openly stated that "The foundations of Chinese
socialism rest on Darwin and the theory of evolution." 3
Thus the intellectual struggle against communism must be
aimed at materialist philosophy and, therefore, the theory of
evolution. It is also clear that the wide acceptance of the the-
ory of evolution in society will further nourish materialism as
well as communism.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism

Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece,
the theory of evolution was advanced extensively in the nine-
teenth century. The most important development that made
it the top topic of the world of science was Charles Darwin's
The Origin of Species, published in 1859. In this book, he de-
nied that God created different living species on Earth sepa-
rately, for he claimed that all living beings had a common
ancestor and had diversified over time through small changes.
Darwin's theory was not based on any concrete scientific find-
ing; as he also accepted, it was just an "assumption."
Moreover, as Darwin confessed in the long chapter of his
book titled "Difficulties of the Theory," the theory failed in the