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36 Marx, Karl

Under the "op pres sion of the
poor" pro gram im ple ment ed in
Britain in the 19th cen tu ry, the
strong crushed the weak in the
strug gle for sur viv al, and the rap id -
ly ris ing pop u la tion would thus be
kept in bal ance. The strug gle for sur -
viv al that Malthus re gard ed as the o -
ret i cal ly nec es sa ry led to mil lions of
poor peo ple in Britain liv ing wretch -
ed lives.

MARX, KARL
Karl Marx, the founder of com mu nism
Karl Marx, the founder of
Communism, de scribed Charles
Evolution, of course, was just what the
Darwin's book The Origin of Species,
founders of com mu nism need ed to ex -
which set forth the ba sis of the the o -
plain how man kind could have come
ry of ev o lu tion, as "a book which
in to be ing with out the in ter ven tion of
con tains the ba sis of nat u ral his to ry
any su per nat u ral force, and con se -
for our views." 29
quent ly it could be used to bol ster the
Marx dem on strat ed his re gard
foun da tions of their ma te ri al is tic phi -
for Darwin by ded i cat ing his own los o phy. In ad di tion, Darwin's in ter -
most im por tant work, Das Kapital, pre ta tion of ev o lu tion—that ev o lu tion
to him. His own hand writ ing in the had come about through the op er a tion
German edi tion of the book read, of nat u ral se lec tion—gave them an al -
"Mr. Charles Darwin / On the part of ter na tive hy poth e sis to the pre vail ing
his sin cere ad mir er / Karl Marx." 30 te le o log i cal ex pla na tion of the ob served
The American researcher fact that all forms of life are adapt ed to
their con di tions. 31
Conway Zirckle ex plains why Marx
and Engels, the founders of The so cial sci en tist Tom Bethell,
Communism, so read i ly ac cept ed who works at the Hoover Institute in
the idea of ev o lu tion aft er Darwin America, ex plains the fun da men tal
pub lished The Origin of Species: rea sons for the link be tween the two
the o ries:

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