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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 103
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THE COLLAPSE OF THE MARXIST VIEW OF HISTORY
K arl Marx, the founder of theory of evolution.
On the other hand, none of Marx's
Communism, adapted
Darwin's ideas, which prophecies regarding the future came
deeply influenced him, to the dialectic true. It was realised that Marx's theo-
process of history. According to Marx, ries were not applicable within 10
society went through different phases years of Marx's death. Marx claimed
in history, and the factor which deter- that one after the other the most
mined these phases was the change in developed capitalist nations would
the means of production and produc- undergo Communist revolutions,
tion relations. According to this view, whereas no such period happened.
the economy determined everything Lenin, one of Marx's greatest follow-
else. History went through evolution- ers, tried to explain why these revolu-
ary stages: Primitive society, slave tions had not taken place, and then
society, feudal society, capitalist soci- put forward other prophecies that
ety, and the last stage, Communist Communist revolutions would be
society. experienced in Third World countries.
Yet history itself showed that Marx's Yet all of Lenin's claims were proven
proposed evolutionary period pos- untrue by history. In our time the
sessed no validity. At no time in histo- number of countries run under Com-
ry has any society been seen which munism can be counted on the fingers
has gone through Marx's proposed of one hand. Furthermore, Marxism
evolutionary stages. On the contrary, used force in the regions where it
it is possible to see systems which came to power, and it came to power
Marx identified as coming before or not by popular movements, as it
after each other at the same time in the claimed, but by dictatorial pressure.
same society. While one part of a In short, recent history has completely
country is experiencing systems simi- disproved Marxist philosophy's pre-
lar to the feudal system, capitalist dicted period of historical evolution.
rules may apply in another region. For Theories such as "the dialectic of his-
which reason there is absolutely no tory" and "historical evolution" in the
proof that the passage from one sys- many volumes written by materialist
tem to another follows the evolution- ideologues such as Marx and Engels,
ary pattern claimed by Marx and the are just products of fantasy.