This book is a revised version of a dissertation (University of Iowa, 1994) that in 1996 won the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Science for the best dissertation in that field. The book was originally published in 1999 by International Scholars Publications.
Foreword (by Alfred Kelly) vii
I. Karl Marx's Ambivalence toward Darwinism 15
II. Friedrich Engels: Evolution and the Dialectics of Nature 53
III. Non-Marxian Socialist Darwinism: Friedrich Albert Lange and Ludwig Buchner 83
IV. The Role of Biologists in the Darwinism-Socialism Controversy in Germany 103
V. August Bebel's Popularization of Evolution 131
VI. Karl Kautsky: Apostle of Socialist Darwinism 157
VII. Eduard Bernstein and Evolutionary Socialism 195
Conclusion 221
Bibliography 225
Index 255