A Scientific Theory Creates New Changes

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Varun Batta

It is now more than twenty years ago that an English man named Charles Darwin thought up of a new theory in the world of science. He postulated the concept of Natural Selection. This led to the Theory of Evolution, as we call it today. The development of this theory began with Darwin’s search for explanations of contradictions in current faith based ideas. Based on his observations he demonstrated this theory using giraffes. He proposed the question: If there are two different species of giraffes, one with a longer neck and one with a shorter neck, and all the leaves on the lower part of the trees are finished, what would happen? He concluded: the giraffes with the shorter neck would eventually die, because they would not reach the higher leaves, and those who survived will mate and create more long necked giraffes. This example shows us ‘Survival of the Fittest.’
While the scientific world was always full of praise for this new theory, even the philosophers have started to pay attention as it changes the whole perception that people had of life. They are applying it to their thinking and even finding analogies with it.
One such philosophy, communism, has even begun to encounter changes. Marx and Engels, the two founders of communism, had earlier accepted the worldview portrayed in the book of Genesis. Now they are beginning to rethink the basic philosophy of communism. Darwin’s theory has led them to alter their worldview to one that leads to a philosophy based on atheism. The core idea that one day a violent revolution in which all commoners will rise and overthrow the rich, like the strong overthrowing the weak, is now fueled by the very concept of Natural Selection. Communism was once based on religion, the fact that God had created this world and that is what Karl Marx told us. Now all of this has changed. With Darwin now showing the world that it is possible God did not create all of this and that the world might have once been ‘communist’ has indeed changed the basis of communism. It is now possible that the world was always like this, that the strong had overthrown the weak, or the taller giraffe had gotten food and the shorter had not. Why should it not be again?

Marx is clearly very much impressed by the concept of Natural selection. He wishes to dedicate part of his next book, Das Kapital, to Charles Darwin. If the world was once ‘communist’ then why should it not be again says Karl Marx. The following eulogy of Friedrich Engels’ describes the relationship between these two great thinkers: 'Just as Darwin had discovered the law of evolution in organic nature so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history'