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Title: Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought by Terence Ball ISBN: 0-19-827953-1 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $80.00

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Summary: Evolution of Political Theory + A Marx-Darwin Clarification
Comment: This interesting series of snapshots on the course of modern political theory, from Machiavelli, through Vico, Rousseau, to Marx and Rawls, also contains an important and useful essay, "Marx and Darwin Reconsidered", exposing the myths that surround the supposed letters of Marx to Darwin.
"For more than a century the names of K. Marx and C.Darwin have been linked in an apparently indissoluble union. That union, I shall argue is almost wholly chimerical. It dervies from a myth created after Marx's death by Friedrich Engels, disseminated by later Marxists as evidence for their theory's scientific status, and given considerable credence and suport by the discovery of two letters written by Darwin to Marx. As we shall see the first of these letters is authentic, so too is the second--except that the addressee was not Karl Marx".

History has forgotten the harm done to Marxism by Darwin's theory, as the disastrous equation of evolutionary mechanism, natural selection and class struggle collated in certain more degenerated versions of revolutionary thinking. Setting the record straight is important here, for all perspectives.