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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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'hugely significant' for the revolution. Bukharin called it 'a weapon from
the iron arsenal of materialism.' 31
Trotsky, an important theoretician of Communist ideology and
Lenin's most important associate, agreed with Lenin's views about "the
transformation of human nature" that had their origin in Darwinism. As
Trotsky wrote:
W
What is man? He is by no means a finished or harmonious being. No, he is
still a highly awkward creature. Man, as an animal, has not evolved by
plan but spontaneously, and has accumulated many contradictions. The
question of how to educate and regulate, of how to improve and complete
the physical and spiritual construction of man, is a colossal problem which
can only be conceived on the basis of Socialism. We can construct a railway
across the Sahara, we can build the Eiffel Tower and talk directly with
New York, but we surely cannot improve man. No, we can! To produce a
new, 'improved version' of man — that is the future task of Communism…
Man must look at himself and see himself as a raw material, or at best as a
semi-manufactured product, and say: 'At last, my dear homo sapiens, I
will work on you.' 32
Along with Lenin and Trotsky, other Bolsheviks believed that
human beings were an animal species, nothing more than an agglomer-
ation of matter. Because they saw no value in human life, millions of per-
sons could easily be sacrificed for the sake of the revolution. According
to Richard Pipes's The Unknown Lenin, "For humankind at large Lenin
had nothing but scorn: the documents confirm Gorky's assertion that in-
dividual human beings held for Lenin 'almost no interest,' and that he
treated the working class much as a metalworker treated iron ore." 33

Lenin's Policy of Deliberate Starvation

Nearly all Communist regimes of the 20th century have subjected
their peoples to starvation. In Lenin's time, famine brought death to five
million. From 1932 to 1933, in Stalin's time, the same disaster happened
again but with a much wider scope; more than 6 million people died as a
result of it. As we will see in the following pages, millions died as a re-
sult of famine in Mao's Red China and Pol Pot's Cambodia.