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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 history." 2
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 theo-
ry 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 denied
that God created different living species on Earth separately,
for he claimed that all living beings had a common ancestor and
had diversified over time through small changes. Darwin's the-
ory was not based on any concrete scientific finding; 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 face of many critical ques-
tions.
Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific discov-