Page 101 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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D D A R W I N I S M : T H E S O U R C E O F C O M M U N I S T S A V A G E R Y Y 101
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T he ideology which brought the greatest harm to man-
kind in the violence and savagery-filled century we
have just left behind, and the most widespread in the
world, was without doubt Communism. Commu-
nism, which reached its historical peak with the two German philosop-
th
hers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19 century, spilt so much blo-
od in the world that it left even the Nazis and the imperialists behind. It
led to the deaths of innocent people and spread violence, fear, and hope-
lessness among mankind. Even today when someone speaks of The Iron
Curtain countries and Russia, images rise up of communities ruled by
darkness, fog, and hopelessness, lifeless streets, trouble and fear. No mat-
ter how much Communism is thought of as having been torn down in
1991, the debris it left behind it still exists. No matter how "liberalised"
one part of the "unrepentant" Communists and Marxists may be, materi-
alist philosophy, the dark side of Communism and Marxism and which
turned people away from religion and morality, still continues to influen-
ce these people.
This ideology which spread terror to every corner of the world actu-
ally represented an idea which goes back to ancient times. Dialectics was
a belief that all development in the universe arose as the result of conflict.
Based on this belief Marx and Engels set about analysing the history of the
world. Marx claimed that the history of man was one of conflict, that the
current conflict was one between workers and capitalists, and that the
workers would soon rise up and build a Communist revolution.
The most striking feature of the two founders of Communism was
that, like all materialists, they nurtured a great hatred of religion. Marx