Darwin Vs Karl Marx

In the nineteenth century industrialization lead to new views of science and politics that were deemed revolutionary in nature. During this period Europeans believed science was capable of revealing secrets of the natural world, in turn revealing ways to improve human society through rational inquiry. Two important people that stood out during the Europeans industrial age were Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Both of these men developed new ways of processing knowledge that significantly altered previous ways of thinking. As Marx analyzed capitalism and expanded on the idea of inevitability of socialist revolution, he developed a systematic framework for exploration of human history. Darwin expressed how natural selection drives the process of evolution, developing a new structure for comprehending natural history. Karl Marx was a German author and philosopher who founded …show more content…
Instead, he developed a materialist view that saw history as driven by changes in the way things are produced, which generate the social, political, and ideological characteristics of a society. Marx also believed in Darwin‘s theory of evolution thus strengthening Marx’s own view of human history proceeding through stages. Marx interpreted the dialectic in terms of material relations rather than abstract ideas. Marx examined the original French Revolution to find that the rise of capitalism challenged the old feudal system of production, leading to the rise of the bourgeoisie and its overthrow of the monarchy and aristocracy. He felt that capitalism contained one critical flaw; the efficiency of capitalism causes recurrent crises when more goods are produced than the market can absorb. Marx spent his life improving his theories, by the time of his death, there were no socialist revolution, but his ideas were spreading as his followers