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Admissions by Bloodthirsty 20th-Century Fascist and
Communist Dictators That They Drew Their Basic
Ideas from Those of Darwin
Joseph Stalin:
"In order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth
that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with
the geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in
argument; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin's teachings." 1
Mao Zedong:
"The foundation of Chinese Socialism rests on Darwin and the theo-
ry of evolution." 2
Friedrich Engels and Karl
Marx:
From a letter by
Engels to Marx:
"Darwin, whom I
am just now reading,
is splendid." 3
Marx's reply to Engels
written on 19 December
1860: "… this is the
book which contains
the basis in natural his-
tory for our view." 4
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