¶ Marx, Karl
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Marx, Karl:
“Karl Marx assumed the scientific validity of both Malthus and Darwin with their combined ‘fundamental inadequacy of popular life support’ and ‘survival only of the fittest.’ He assumed that the working masses were the fittest because, though dumb, they instinctively understood how to cultivate agriculture, husband animals, and work the craft tools. Wherefore the great pirates, the nobility, and the bourgeoisie who serviced the nobility, were parasites and must perish. Marx also assumed that the genetic difference between the nobility and the masses was valid; ergo his fundamental class warfare inherent in the economic inadequacy to support both. He also assumed the necessity of downgrading standards in order to stretch support systems to serve all; and he assumed minority-party rule by dogmatic adherence to nonindividualistic code, and annihilation of the treacherous ‘other class.’”
