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Just like other communist leaders, Lenin, too, frequently emphasized
that Darwin's theory provided the fundamental foundation for the di-
alectic materialist philosophy he advocated. He expressed in one of his
statements his stance on Darwinism as follows:

D Darwin put an end to the belief that the animal and vegetable species bear
no relation to one another, except by chance, and that they were created by
God, and hence immutable. 9
When Lenin said that Darwin “put an end to the belief that life was
created by God,” he was only uttering these words out of an ideological
concern, under the primitive scientific conditions of his era. Science
dealt one fatal blow after another to Darwin's theory, both in the years
when Lenin was still alive, and in the forthcoming years and decades.
Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, one of the leaders of Russian
Communism whom Lenin praised for his command of all international
Marxist literature, summed it up succinctly when he said that Marxism
is "Darwinism in its application to social sciences." 10
As for Stalin, he was expressing his high regard for Darwin's ideas as
follows:
In order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth that
the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with the
geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in argu-
ment; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin's teachings. 11
By saying in one of his public addresses that "The foundation of
Chinese Socialism rests on Darwin and the theory of evolution," Mao,
the founder of communist China, was clearly expressing the basic foun-
dation upon which his communist system was established. 12
Professor Malachi Martin, of the Vatican's Pontifical Bible Institute
explains the relation between Marx and Darwin in these words:
. . . when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, Marx re-
garded it as far more than theory. He seized upon it as his "scientific" proof
that there was no kingdom of Heaven, only the kingdom of Matter.
Darwin had vindicated Marx in his rejection of Hegel's [idealism].
Ignoring the fact that Darwin's theory of evolution was just that a theory. .
. Marx adapted Darwin's ideas to the social classes of his day. . . Darwin's
theory of evolution being what it was, Marx reasoned that the social