[Siena Dreaming]

There is no connection at all between communism and the theory of evolution

And yet Marx says this of Origen of Species,

"Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is a book which contains the basis of natural history for our views."

Marx here actually calls evolution the basis of his views which devloped of course into communism.

[Ichneumon]

"Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is a book which contains the basis of natural history for our views." Marx here actually calls evolution the basis of his views which devloped of course into communism.

That would be a neat trick, since Marx wrote and published "The Communist Manifeso" a few years *before* Darwin had ever published anything on evolution. So did Marx have a time machine, or are all of you "evolution inspired communism" folks just grossly ignorant and straining for cheap excuses to attack a field of science you happen not to like?

[PatrickHenry]

Marx here actually calls evolution the basis of his views which devloped of course into communism.

Look, Marx was a communist, and an author of communist trash (the Manifesto, etc.) before Darwin disclosed his theory of evolution to the world.

[illinoissmith]

"Marx here actually calls evolution the basis of his views which devloped of course into communism."

Yes Marx spun his work as "science". So do snake-oil salesmen. So do those people trying to sell breast or penis enlargement pills via spamming. That's a common tendency of pseudo-science.

Communism's core is derived from Hegel.

Sometimes monsters don't want their roots known. You think the bogus pill spammers would tell you where they really got their formulas from?