Charles Darwin, in my opinion, is an accessory to this crime. He was a deist and believed that "God" created the first cell, and then he (God) stepped out of the way and let thing evolve on their own.
We have not seen the end of these monsters, nor will we. The desire to control others – and to harm others – without consequence appears to be ‘black code’ that’s written into our DNA.
You are correct. You should look at (if you haven't already) the monograph of the Russian mathematician Igor Shafarevich, The Socialist Phenomenon, which has a part which traces the socialist impulse back to antiquity.
I hope you guys all read the comments at the bottom of the article.
Haven't seen the Shafarevich work. Looks interesting. I'll check it out. Right now, I'm revisitng Fukuyama's Trust (yeah, I know - like a stopped clock, he's right twice a day), but he's got some ideas that are useful as points of departure for other things. He confirms, for instance, Quigley's astonishing analysis (Tragedy and Hope) that defines what he calls the "Pakistani-Peruvian axis" - a combination of Asian despotism and Arabic outlook (key word, that - outlook), both of which have their roots in Bronze Age antiquity, that pervade what Quigley calls the shattered cultures that dwell on its axis. This analysis makes apalling sense out the cultural trainwrecks that persist to this day from the Arabic East (Pakistan) to South America (Peru) - and boardrooms in Paris, London and New York. And it provides the perfect framework for the triumph of the greatest evil of modernity - the will to power as the dominating and driving force of those who would exterminate most of the worlds population and rule the remainder of humanity like cattle.
I fear for our civilization.