24 November, 2009 — Climate & Capitalism

24 November 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterwork, On The Origin of Species

Only 1,250 copies of the first edition of On the Origin of Species were printed, and they all sold in one day. One of those who obtained a copy was Friedrich Engels, then living in Manchester. Three weeks later, he wrote to Karl Marx:

“Darwin, by the way, whom I’m reading just now, is absolutely splendid. There was one aspect of teleology that had yet to be demolished, and that has now been done. Never before has so grandiose an attempt been made to demonstrate historical evolution in Nature, and certainly never to such good effect.”

See Marx, Engels and Darwin (PDF: 609 KB)