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both dyed-in-the-wool athe-
ists, thought that for commu-
nism to succeed, it was essen-
tial for religious faith to be

eradicated. However, Marx
and Engels were lacking one
element; they needed to give
their ideology a scientific ap-
pearance in order to influence
wide masses of people. At
that point was born the dead-
ly alliance that led to so much
suffering, chaos, mass slaugh-
ter, and fighting and sepa-
ratism that erupted in the 20 th
century. The main claims pro-
The Origin of Species
posed by Darwin in his book
The Origin of Species were just what Marx and Engels were looking
for. Darwin maintained that living things emerged as the result of
a "fight for life"— in other words, through a "dialectical conflict."
Furthermore, he had rejected religious beliefs by rejecting creation.
This was an opportunity that Marx and Engels couldn't miss.

So great was Darwinism's importance to communism that as
soon as Darwin's book was first published, Engels wrote to Marx,
"Darwin, whom I am just now reading, is splendid." In his reply on
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19 December, 1860, Marx wrote, "This book contains the basis in na-
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ture for our view." On 16 January 1861, in a letter to another so-
cialist, his friend Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx wrote, "Darwin's work
is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis
in natural science for the historical class struggle" again empha-
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