[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Thomas Huxley wasn't the only atheistic philosopher that really liked Darwin's theory. "

Actually, Huxley was never more than luke warm about Natural Selection. Natural Selection didn't become the accepted mechanism for most evolutionary biologists until the 1930's when Darwin was joined with a more mature version of Mendelian genetics.

As for Marx, he grabbed onto evolution only because he misread Darwin's idea of a struggle for existence in nature (which is undeniable) with class struggle. Darwin, a free market Whig, had never intended his theory to be used in political philosophy.

[A. Pole]

As for Marx, he grabbed onto evolution only because he misread Darwin's idea of a struggle for existence in nature (which is undeniable) with class struggle.

Are you sure? What you said fits more the National Socialism with its stress on race struggle.

Marx system is derived from Hegel and sees conflicts as the way for the Absolute to come into harmony, unity and perfection (in future Communist society). When the main work of Darwin was published in 1859 the views of Marx were already formed.