[CarolinaGuitarman]

"The ideas arose out of the ecosystem of ideas at the same time. We see examples of similar development in fossil classifaction all the time."

In other words, you have no EVIDENCE that Darwin had anything to do with Marx. Just, *it was in the air*.

[bvw]

Of course I have evidence. Stephen Gould, bless his soul, might even call my theory a fact. The theory of evolution of ideas is not only a theory it is a fact.