Professional paper

Marxism as a Negation of Social Darwinism

Marko Kardum orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-6677 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

Abstract

This paper brings out the connection between the theory of evolution and Marxism, as well as the epochal significance of Darwin and Marx themselves. The connection is most plainly seen in the notion of process, or development, imminent to both theories, which has replaced the earlier static understanding and interpretation of natural and historic problems. In addition, Marxism as a critique refers to the structure of natural sciences and their role in the shaping of the dominant reality principle. The same approach is also employed to question the application of natural-science notions and principles to historic and social phenomena. By employing the dialectical method and critique of the existing, the determined value judgment manifested in humanist Marxist maxims is here carried out to a demand for a new standardization of reality.

Keywords

evolutionary theory; Darwinism; Marxism; dialectic; ideology; process

Hrčak ID:

61615

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/61615

Publication date:

3.11.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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