To: ALS
Marx was endeared to DarwinNo he wasn't. Darwin graduated, in his adulthood, from being a Christian to a theist, and in his middle age and on from being a theist to being a "free thinking" agnostic, but he never had any use for political radicalism. Darwin was a lifelong Whig (the ancestor to the Republican Party). He was a capitalist, a supporter of markets (like most other classical liberals of the time).
To: Stultis
Please, Do Not Feed The Trolls.
Thank you
2,174 posted on
08/09/2003 10:56:38 PM PDT by
Aric2000
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To: Stultis
oh yeah he was.
Obviously you only read nutball screed. The case has been made while you were out twiddling your thumbs somewhere. Perhaps if you tried the FR scoll feature you would realize you missed some prior posts.
2,175 posted on
08/09/2003 10:58:05 PM PDT by
ALS
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To: Stultis
Karl Marx on Darwin:
"Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle. One does, of course, have to put up with the clumsy English style of argument. Despite all shortcomings, it is here that, for the first time, ‘teleology’ in natural science is not only dealt a mortal blow but its rational meaning is empirically explained."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/letters/61_01_16.htm 2,183 posted on
08/09/2003 11:06:33 PM PDT by
ALS
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