The legacy of Marxism is one of complete befuddlement by Darwinism. Suppressed (Marx himself the victim of cancel culture, so to speak) is the fact that Marx was initially contemptuous of Darwin’s theory but overall Marxism has seeded its downfall with the one unforgivable sin: buttress of capitalist ideology on the crucial issue of evolutionary mythology, Social Darwinism and crypto-eugenics in capitalist dynamics. One ends suspicious that Marx simply entered the deception in the context of a crystalizing ideology of the biologists.
I think that the left should move on from Marxism: it is riddled with confusion and at a time when the Darwin gambit is starting to collapse, a new take is needed.
Mary Midgley has valiantly challenged the Darwin propaganda machine but her efforts failed because she basically remained within the theory of Darwin and took on Dawkins without the proper basis fo…
