MARXISM AND DARWINISM. 35 



TiO Socialist system is the only natural system, as some 

 Socialists try to prove. Capitalism was natural under 

 the conditions of the nineteenth century, just as 

 feudalism was in the Middle Ages, and as Socialism 

 will be in the coming age. The attempt to put forward 

 a certain system as the only natural and permanent 

 one is as futile as if we were to take an animal and say 

 that this animal is the most perfect of all animals. 

 Darwinism teajches us that every animal is equally 

 adapted and equally perfect in form to suit its special 

 environments, and Marxism teaches us that every so- 

 cial system is particularly adapted to its conditions, 

 and that in this sense it may be called good and per- 

 fect. 



Herein lies the main reason why the endeavor of 

 the bourgeois Darwinists to defend the foundering 

 capitalist system is bound to fail. Arguments based 

 on natural science, when applied to social questions, 

 must almost always lead to reverse conclusions. This 

 happens because, while nature is very slow in its de- 

 velopment and changes within the ken of human his- 

 tory are imperceptible, so that it may almost be re- 

 garded as stable, human society nevertheless under- 

 goes quick and continuous changes. In order to un- 

 derstand the moving force and the cause of social de- 

 velopment, we must study society as such. It is only 

 here that we can find the reason of social development. 

 Marxism and Darwinism should remain in their own 

 domains ; they are independent of each other and there 

 is no direct connection between them. 



Here arises a very important question. Can we 

 stop at the conclusion that Marxism applies only to 

 society and that Darwinism applies only to the or- 

 ganic world, and that neither of these theories is ap- 



