The ideology which brought the greatest
harm to mankind in the violence and savagery-filled century we have just
left behind, and the most widespread in the world, was without doubt
Communism. Communism, which reached its historical peak with
the two German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th
century, spilt so much blood in the world that it left even the Nazis and
the imperialists behind. It led to the deaths of innocent people and
spread violence, fear, and hopelessness among mankind. No matter how much
Communism is thought of as having been torn down in 1991, the debris it
left behind it still exists. No matter how "liberalised" one part of the
"unrepentant" Communists and Marxists may be, materialist philosophy, the
dark side of Communism and Marxism and which turned people away from
religion and morality, still continues to influence these people.
This ideology which spread terror to every
corner of the world actually represented an idea which goes back to
ancient times. Dialectics was a belief that all development in the
universe arose as the result of conflict. Based on this belief Marx and
Engels set about analysing the history of the world. Marx claimed that the
history of man was one of conflict, that the current conflict was one
between workers and capitalists, and that the workers would soon rise up
and build a Communist revolution.
The most striking feature of the two
founders of Communism was that, like all materialists, they nurtured a
great hatred of religion. Marx and Engels were both confirmed atheists and
saw the doing away with religious beliefs as essential from the point of
view of Communism.
But Marx and Engels lacked one important
thing: in order to attract a wider public they needed to give their
ideology a scientific appearance. And the dangerous alliance which gave
rise to the pain, chaos, mass murders, turning of brother against brother,
and separatism of the 20th century emerged at this point. Darwin proposed
his theory of evolution in his book The Origin of Species. And how
interesting it is that the basic claims he put forward were just the
explanations Marx and Engels were looking for. Darwin claimed that living
things emerged as a result of the "struggle for survival" or "dialectical
conflict." Furthermore he denied creation and rejected religious beliefs.
For Marx and Engels this was an opportunity not to be missed.
In a letter Marx wrote to Lassalle, a
socialist friend of his, on January 16, 1861, he said: "Darwin's book
is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the
class struggle in history." thus revealing the importance of the
theory of evolution for Communism.
In one of his works, Engels stressed the
importance of Darwin's having developed a theory opposed to religion:
He (Darwin) dealt the metaphysical
conception of nature the heaviest blow by his proof that the organic
world of today — plants, animals, and consequently man too — is the
product of a process of evolution going on through millions of years.
The American researcher Conway Zirckle
explains why the founders of Communism immediately accepted Darwin's
theory"
Marx and Engels accepted evolution almost
immediately after Darwin published The Origin of Species.
Evolution, of course, was just what the founders of
communism needed to explain how mankind could have come into being
without the intervention of any supernatural force, and
consequently it could be used to bolster the foundations of their
materialistic philosophy. In addition, Darwin's interpretation of
evolution–that evolution had come about through the operation of natural
selection–gave them an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing
teleological explanation of the observed fact that all forms of life are
adapted to their conditions.
As we have seen, Marx and Engels were
delighted to believe that Darwin's concept of evolution formed a
scientific support for their own atheist world view. But this delight
proved to be premature. The theory of evolution saw wide acceptance
because it was proposed in a primitive 19th century scientific environment
and was full of errors lacking any sort of scientific proof. Science,
which developed in the second half of the 20th century, revealed the
invalidity of the theory of evolution. This meant the collapse of
Communist and materialist thinking as much as it did of Darwinism. (For
further details see The Evolution Deceit by Harun Yahya).
Marx and Engels' followers, who brought
about the deaths of millions of people accepted the theory of evolution
with great joy and interest.
It was Lenin who made Marx's project of
Communist revolution come true. Lenin, aimed to bring down the Tsarist
regime in Russia by force of arms. The chaos after World War I gave the
Bolsheviks the opportunity they had been seeking. With Lenin at their
head, the Communists seized power by the use of arms in October 1917.
After the revolution Russia was the scene of a bloody three-year civil war
between Communists and supporters of the tsar.
Like the other Communist leaders, Lenin
often stressed that Darwin's theory was the fundamental basis of
dialectical materialist philosophy.
Darwin put an end to the belief that the
animal and vegetable species bear no relation to one another, except by
chance, and that they were created by God, and hence immutable.
Trotsky, counted the most important
architect of the Bolshevik revolution after Lenin, again attached great
importance to Darwinism. He declared his admiration for Darwin in the
following way,
Darwin's discovery is the highest triumph
of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter.
Following Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin,
widely regarded as the bloodiest dictator in the history of the world.
Stalin's first important move was to take
over the fields of the peasants in the name of this policy of
collectivization which was intended to do away with private property. All
the Russian villagers' crops were collected by armed officials. As a
result these was a terrible famine. Millions of women, children, and the
elderly who could find nothing to eat ended their lives writhing in
hunger. The death toll in the Caucasus alone was 1 million.
Stalin sent hundreds of thousands of people
who tried to resist this policy to Siberia's dreadful labor camps. On the
other hand tens of thousands of people were executed by Stalin's secret
police. Millions of people were forced to migrate to the furthest corners
of Russia.
By these bloody policies Stalin killed some
20 million people. Historians have revealed that this savagery gave him
enormous personal pleasure. Apart from his personal psychological state,
the main influence which lead him to become such a ruthless killer was the
materialist philosophy he believed in.
In Stalin's period the Soviet Union had
turned into an environment of chaos where for millions of people life was
permanently under threat, and where they could be taken away, though
innocent of any crime, at any moment, to suffer unimagined torments. Not
just Communism, but the history of Fascism, too, is full of such
attitudes.
Some commentators on history fall into the
error, when evaluating these events, of trying to show that the basic
cause of all this savagery and mercilessness was that as people, Lenin,
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Mussolini had unbalanced and psychopathic
natures. What kind of coincidence is it, that the whole world should have
fallen into the hands of psychologically unbalanced people at the same
time?
It is an obvious and definite truth that
these people and ideologies all drank from the same well and that they
were all portrayed as justified and the only way by the same source. In
short there was another guilty party behind these people. The cause of
these inhuman and unbalanced leaders dragging millions along behind them,
and which allowed them to commit crimes, was the apparent scientific force
and support given to them by materialist philosophy and Darwinism. (For
further information on the subject, see "Disasters Darwinism Brought to
Humanity" by Harun Yahya)
