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Marxism views itself as "scientific socialism."  As such it embraces a scientific view of the world (except, non-Marxists recognize, in it's political decision making). It also embraces an evolutionary model to explain history and the evolution of different types of societies.  It was an evolutionary process that ultimately produced the classed society that Marx recognized in the 1800's as well as the classless society to come.  The mechanism of competition is pretty fundemental to evolution, as well as classical economics and both Marxist economics and history.   

Marxism views itself as "scientific socialism."  As such it embraces a scientific view of the world (except, non-Marxists recognize, in it's political decision making). It also embraces an evolutionary model to explain history and the evolution of different types of societies.  It was an evolutionary process that ultimately produced the classed society that Marx recognized in the 1800's as well as the classless society to come.  The mechanism of competition is pretty fundemental to evolution, as well as classical economics and both Marxist economics and history.   

There might be some Marxist 'fundementalists' who might feel that the evolutionary mechanisms described by Marx (as appropriated from Hegel)exclude Darwinian views.  'Thesis producing antithesis' is not the mechanism described by Darwin.  Nor is class warfare something that was described by Darwin.  But I think this would be more a view embraced by Stalinists trying to avoid the next purge  rather than less terrorized Marxist scholars since Stalin's demise.    I think western Marxist scholars especially would view Darwinism in the context of scientific explanation and hold it contingently true to the extent that it best explains existing evidence.    This can be tested by referring to credible Marxist writings on the subject.  -McCheese

There might be some Marxist 'fundementalists' who might feel that the evolutionary mechanisms described by Marx (as appropriated from Hegel)exclude Darwinian views.  'Thesis producing antithesis' is not the mechanism described by Darwin.  Nor is class warfare something that was described by Darwin.  But I think this would be more a view embraced by Stalinists trying to avoid the next purge  rather than less terrorized Marxist scholars since Stalin's demise.    I think western Marxist scholars especially would view Darwinism in the context of scientific explanation and hold it contingently true to the extent that it best explains existing evidence.    This view can be tested by referring to credible Marxist writings on the subject.  -McCheese