Page 17 - Communism in Ambush

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)

Darwin applied materialist philoso-
phy to nature, while Marx-Engels ap-
plied it to history.
In fact, K Karl Marx was the first to
realize Darwin's important contribu-
tion to materialism. Reading Darwin's
The Origin of Species after its publica-
tion in 1859, Marx found in it great
support for his own theory. A letter he
wrote to Engels on December 19, 1860,
says that Darwin's book "contains the
basis in natural history for our
views." 2 In a letter to Lassalle in
January 16, 1861, he says, "Darwin's According to Plekhanov, a
leader of Russian
book is very important and serves me
Communism, Marxism is
as a basis in natural science for the
"Darwinism in its application
class struggle in history." 3 to social sciences".
Marx's dedication to Darwin of his
greatest work, Das Kapital, shows the common mind that they shared.
In the German edition of his book that he sent Darwin, Marx wrote with
his own hand, "Mr Charles Darwin on the part of his sincere admirer
Karl Marx." 4
Darwinism held such a great significance for communism that, no
sooner had the book of Darwin been published, Engels wrote the follow-
ing in his letter to Marx; "Darwin, whom I am just now reading, is splen-
did." 5
Engels again expressed his admiration for Darwin elsewhere as fol-
lows: "Nature is the test of dialectics, and it must be said . . . that in the
last resort, nature works dialectically and not metaphysically . . . In this
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connection, Darwin must be named before all others." Elsewhere, he
said that, "Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic na-
ture, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history." 7
Through the words, "Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution
in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human
history" Engels was exalting Darwin to a position on par with Marx. 8