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DARWINISM AND RACISM
Another ideology that was nourished by Darwinism
was racism. In his book, The Origin of Species, Darwin
suggested that European white races had progressed
in evolution, whereas the other races were still at the
same level as apes. These ideas provided a so-called
scientific justification for racist thinkers. The racist
illustration seen on the side, showing black people and
apes in the same tree, is a representation of the impact
of Darwinism in 19th century England.
The racist heritage of Darwinism provided the basis
for ideologies such as Nazism in the 20th century. The
racist views of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler derived
from Darwin's theory of evolution. In Hitler's book
Mein Kampf (My Struggle), there were views inspired
by Darwin's concept of the struggle for existence.

Darwin's Enmity
Towards the Turks
The racist views of
Charles Darwin were having done and doing more for
directed against many the progress of civilization than
races among which you seem inclined to admit.
were the Turks. As Remember what risk the nations
quoted from the book of Europe ran, not so many
titled The Life and centuries ago of being
Letters of Charles overwhelmed by the Turks, and
Darwin that is how ridiculous such an idea now
composed of Darwin's is! The more civilized so-called
letters, Darwin referred Caucasian races have beaten the
to the Turkish nation as
a "lower race" and then Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to
estimated that "lower races will have been eliminated at the world at no very distant date, what an endless number
no very distant date." In the letter Charles Darwin wrote of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher
to W. Graham on July 3, 1881, he said: civilized races throughout the world." 68
"I could show fight on natural selection

FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Friedrich Engels, the
KARL MARX biggest associate of
The first person to understand the Marx, regarded the
importance of Darwin's theory of evolution as
contribution to materialism was a great support for
Karl Marx, the founder of materialism. Engels
communism. Marx showed praised Darwin and
his sympathy to Darwin Marx as being the
by dedicating to him same: "Just as
Das Kapital, which is Darwin discovered
considered his the law of
greatest work. In evolution in
the German organic nature,
edition of the book so did Marx
which he sent discover the law
to Darwin, he of evolution in
wrote: "From a devoted human
admirer to Charles Darwin" 69
history."
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