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and Engels were both confirmed atheists and saw the doing away with re-
ligious beliefs as essential from the point of view of Communism.
But Marx and Engels lacked one important thing: in order to attract a
wider public they needed to give their ideology a scientific appearance.
And the dangerous alliance which gave rise to the pain, chaos, mass mur-
th
ders, turning of brother against brother, and separatism of the 20 century
emerged at this point. Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in his bo-
ok The Origin of Species. And how interesting it is that the basic claims he
put forward were just the explanations Marx and Engels were looking for.
Darwin claimed that living things emerged as a result of the "struggle for
survival" or "dialectical conflict." Furthermore he denied creation and re-
jected religious beliefs. For Marx and Engels this was an opportunity not
to be missed.
Marx and Engels' Admiration
of Darwin
Darwinism was of such great importan-
ce to Communism that only months after
Darwin's book was published, Engels wrote
to Marx, "Darwin, whom I am
just now reading, is
splendid." 78
The founders of Com-
munism, Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels.