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workers and capitalists, and that soon survival”, in other words, through dia-
the workers would rise up and organize lectical conflict. In addition, he rejected
out a communist revolution. Both dyed- religious beliefs by denying creation. In
in-the-wool atheists, Marx and Engels those terms, Darwinism provided an in-
regarded the elimination of religion as tellectual support for the assertions of
essential for communism to succeed. communism.
However, the actions and struggle to be Hostility towards religion formed the
waged had to be placed on a legitimate basis of the alliance between Darwinism
philosophical footing. and communism. The most important
The theory of evolution, proposed by reason for the communists’ devotion to
Darwin in his book the Origin of Speci- Darwinism was the support it gave to at-
es, became the scientific guise their heism. In his book Soviet Marxism and
ideology had been waiting for. Darwin Natural History, David Jorafsky descri-
claimed that living things emerged and bes this relationship:
developed as the result of a “struggle for In spite of its scientific deficiencies, evo-
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)