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EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY to advance its cause. On the contrary, it has the potential to frustrate and destroy any outside attempt to obstruct its passage. If Darwin had not been born, if none had unravelled the mystery of evolution, the reality of evolution would have remained unchanged. The absence of Darwin could not make the smallest dent upon its inevitability. . The laws of nature do not depend upon the human understanding of their implementation. The perception of man has no part to play in the reality of their existence. . Whether anyone understands them or not, the gigantic wheel of nature would continue to roll on. . How different is the case of dialectical materialism!. Had Marx and Lenin not been born, a Communist revolution in Russia or anywhere else in the world could not have taken place. At that point in Russian history, She was ripe for revolution with or without Lenin. The only difference that Lenin made was to ride the crest of the imminent storm when it broke, loose, and exploited it to the advantage of scientific socialism. In the case of the. Darwinian precept of evolution however, no advocate is ever needed to further its cause, no designer is required to assist the process of natural history. . When we compare Hegel's philosophy with that of. Marx, the central question which emerges is this: Do ideas precede objective changes in the material world, or is it the objective changes themselves which give birth to ideas as they roll on? If Marx is right, then he need not have launched an intellectual and idealistic campaign to bring about a Communist revolution. Anything contrary to the inevitable scientific conclusion could not have taken place. . If Communism were indeed a law unto itself like the law of evolution, then even the most powerful ideas together would not have impeded the advance of. Communism even if they had colluded to do so. Here is the 58