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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 (http://designeduniverse.com Featuring original works by FR's finest . contact me to add yours!)
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To: ALS
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.

Except that it doesn't. Marx was wrong. (Big surprise!)

If you think Marx was right, please explain HOW darwinian evolutionary theory "provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle".

2,223 posted on 08/09/2003 11:49:23 PM PDT by Stultis
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