Despite the view that it’s a recent phenomenon I reason that it has roots (excluding any proverbial sorcerers) that go all the way back to Karl Marx himself.
While I personally cannot vouch for the accuracy of the claim some time back I came across the story that on reading Darwin’s work that Marx was to have hammered off a note to Engels that he had found a basis for their views in naturalism.
Now here I’m not referring to the use of Darwin’s juggernaut in schools to accommodate children of thinking about life in a way that needs no divine, of getting them to take that proverbial first sip that leads them away from faith while at the same time not caring how dated the evolution they teach about is because there is no desire for anyone to drink deeply so that they might find God at the bottom of the glass ... at least till they have first been made well conditioned materialists.
Rather I’m referring to the idea that, human beings not actually being fit to live in Marx’s delusional fairy story, Marx must have recognized that if there could be natural selection there could be unnatural selection as well, carefully directed against human nature itself till Man should give way to mannish beings with a different nature fit for the fairy tale.
What attracts me to this is that it helps explain the attraction of Lysenkoism, or the effort to produce a more socialistic nature, and even helps make sense of the oftentimes claimed disdain for evolution ... which would then be seen as a rival to what might be termed socialistic evolution.
Now, this is speculative but if accurate it pushes the origin of “scientific”transhumanism back numerable decades to actually form an underlying principal of WHY the Soviet states, including the ChiComs who have arguably only veered into fascism to keep themselves in power till they have the hegemony they lust after, were not aberrations of Marxism but in the sweet spot of where Marxist ideologies must take Mankind, inflicting if able untold generations of suffering and hardship in the name of the new natively socialistic man-like creatures to inherit everything.
Also, again if correct, this shows that the Revolution is ultimately against what it is to be.Man and likewise shows that Cultural Marxism, like lysenkoism, didn’t fall far from Marx’s poisonous tree.
Or, such are my thoughts.