More on Marx and Darwin (fwd)

you are great, Alan. thanks for your effort!

Mine Doyran
phd student
dept of pol scie
SUNY/Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
135 western ave., Milne 102
Albany/NY, 12222

>I sent your message on to a friend of mine who specializes in the
>history of biology. He dashed off this response. Hope it's helpful
>-------------------(Alan Spector)


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>To the person requesting info on the Darwin-Marx connection --
>there was a short exchange of letters in 1873, following Marx's dispatch
>of
>a complimentary copy of the 2nd German edition of Kapital to Darwin.
>Darwin wrote back a short, perfunctory response saying he appreciated
>the
>copy but that he was not sure he could understand "political economy (he

>understood Malthus and Adam Smith quite well, however).  Anyway, that
>was
>the end of the exchange (a later letter from Darwin in 1880 was thought
>to
>be a response to Marx's request to dedicate another edition of Kapital
>to
>Darwin, but it later turned out to be in response to a request from
>son-in law Edward Aveling to dedicate to Darwin a popularization of
>evolutionary theory for students.

 >       If you want more details on the Darwin-Marx relationship,  wrote
a
r>elatively short article in 1992, as part of a symposium from the Field
>Museum in Chicago, and published in MATTHEW H. NITECKI AND DORIS V.
>NITECKI, History and Evolution (Albany, State UYniv of New York Press,
>1992): pp 211-239.  If you want a LOT MORE detail check out the
>excellent
>book by PAUL HEYER, Nature, Human Nature and Society (Greenwood Press,
>1982).

                                                -- Gar Allen

>Professor of Biology
>Washington University

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