I don't suppose an economy in which people carried around bucketloads of worthless paper money provided any of the fertilizer for Nazism, not did Tsarist oppression feed the birth of Communism.
js1138, you show me one spot where I said that Darwinism caused Communism or even contributed to it. As a matter of fact, I just said the opposite. They grew up next to each other but were separate (if compatable) movements. After you are done with this, please review what I said about Nazism. Did I anywhere say that Darwinism was the sole cause of Nazism? The Germans carried around wheelbarrows full of useless money. Likewise, Hitler was born in a time of antisemitism. Many things gave rise to Hitler. But his Darwinistic philosophy was also A contributor.
Thomas Huxley wrote: "No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favor, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successively with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites." (Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871)
In an atmosphere such as this, how can anyone argue with a straight face that Hitler wasn't influence by Darwinism? Again, I did not say that Darwinism CAUSED Nazism. Hitler was a demonic lunatic. But it contributed to it.
For more on racism and evolution. Again, Darwin's racism was mild compared to his successors. And scientists today can legitimately reject those claims. However, to ignore the legimate path that those claims and the claims of his successors took in the development of movements such as Nazism is intellectually dishonest.