Thanks to the Danish site Modkraft (counter-force).
Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould: A Darwinian gentleman at Marx’s funeral (Sept, 1999)
“The odd friendship of an evolutionist and a revolutionist.” Reprinted as chapter six in Stephen Jay Gould: I Have Landed (London, 2002).
Anton Pannekoek
Marx and Darwin (1912)
The Friends of Charles Darwin
Marx of Respect (2006)
“It’s a well-known chestnut of Darwinian trivia that the father of international socialism, Karl Marx, once offered to dedicate one of the volumes of his magnum opus, Das Kapital, to that other 19th Century bearded revolutionary living in the south of England, Charles Darwin. Unfortunately, it turns out that this particular chestnut is something of a myth, although the story of how it came about is of interest in its own right.”
Marxists Internet Archive
Glossary of People: Darwin, Charles (1890-82)
Monthly Review
Margaret A. Fay: Marx and Darwin: A literary detective story (Vol. 31, No. 10, March 1980, p. 40-57)
“… Marx’s offer to dedicate any of his work to Darwin was finally revealed for what it really is: a myth which entered the accumulation of historical facts when a letter which Darwin had written to Aveling in 1880 was attributed to Marx’s correspondence 50 years after both Marx and Darwin died.”
New Left Review
Valentino Gerratana: Marx and Darwin (Issue 82, Nov.-Dec. 1973, p.60-82)
“… a striking and sensitive analysis of the actual relations between Marx and Darwin, which should put to rest many partisan preconceptions.” Only summary online.
History of Political Thought
D.A. Stack: The first Darwinian left : radical and socialist responces to Darwin, 1859-1914 (pdf) (Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 2000, 29 p.)
“Myths, misunderstanding and neglect have combined to obscure our understanding of the relationship between left-wing politics and Darwinian science. This article seeks to redress the balance by studying how radical and socialist thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, desperate to legitimate their work with scientific authority, wrestled with the paradoxical challenges Darwinism posed for their politics.”
See also book review: Evolution and Revolution (Socialist Review, November 2003)
