Another such basis would not emerge until the New Physics was born in the first decades of the twentieth century. Transformism was genuinely revolutionary. Had the French succeeded in their revolution, Transformism would be heralded today as the first of the New Sciences. As we all know, political elites happen to be in the protection business. Darwinism was, and is, a reactionary pseudo-science.
Life is dark and brutal struggle, struggle without meaning.
Biological organisms emerge out of haphazard processes, and whether they live or die is determined by haphazard Natural Selection. It is incorrect scientifically, but it is very correct politically. The New World Order of our century is, of course, a reactionary order. The original, progressive New World Order recommends egalitarian republicanism as the most appropriate form of government. The reactionary New World Order recommends state socialism as the necessary form of government.