Pannekoek, an astronomer and leading Marxist theorist, sets the two great evolutionary doctrines of the nineteenth century side by side. He explains Darwin’s theory and Marx’s, argues that they belong to separate domains, attacks the use of the struggle for existence to justify capitalism, and closes on the social instincts of humankind and the role of tools, thought and language.
A short, clear classic of socialist thought for readers interested in how evolution was argued over in politics. Download the free EPUB.