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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 111
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Few Europeans realized how avidly Chinese intellectuals seized on Dar-
winian evolutionary ideas and saw in them a hopeful impetus for
progress and change. According to the Chinese writer Hu Shih (Living
Philosophies, 1931), when Thomas Huxley's book Evolution and Ethics
was published in 1898, it was immediately acclaimed and accepted by
Chinese intellectuals. Rich men sponsored cheap Chinese editions so
they could be widely distributed to the masses. 96
So, the people who turned to Communism and lead the Communist
revolution were these intellectuals who had been "eagerly influenced" by
Darwinist ideas.
It was not hard for China, even with its many deep pantheistic beli-
efs and history, to enter the pincers of Darwinism and Communism. In an
article in the New Scientist magazine the Canadian Darwinist philosopher
Michael Ruse says, concerning early-twentieth-century China:
These ideas took root at once, for China did not have the innate intellectual
and religious barriers to evolution that often existed in the West. Indeed, in
some respects, Darwin seemed almost Chinese! … Taoist and Neo-Confuci-
an thought had always stressed the "thingness" of humans. Our being at one
with the animals was no great shock… Today, the official philosophy is Mar-
xist-Leninism (of a kind). But without the secular materialist approach of
Darwinism (meaning now the broad social philosophy), the ground wo-
uld not have been tilled for Mao and his revolutionaries to sow their seed
and reap their crop. 97
As Michael Ruse stated above, with the firm settling of Darwinist
ideas, China easily took up Communism. The Chinese people, deluded by
Darwinist ideas, stood by and watched all the massacres of Mao Tse Tung,
one of the most unrestrained killers in history.
Yet Communism was the cause of guerrilla conflicts, bloody acts of
terrorism, and civil war in very many countries, not just in China. Turkey
was one of these. In the 1960s and 1970s, groups which took up arms aga-
inst the state dragged Turkey into a dark atmosphere of terrorism with the
dream of making a Communist revolution in the country. After 1980,
Communist terrorism joined with the current of separatism and was the
cause of the deaths of tens of thousands of Turks and of police and soldi-