“bourgeois scientists found it necessary to invent the intraspecific struggle. They say that a fierce struggle for food, of which there is an insufficiency, goes on in nature, within the species, among its individual members – a struggle for the conditions of life. The stronger, fitter individuals win. The same thing, they aver, goes on among human beings: the capitalists, you see, are brainier, are more capable by nature and heredity. We Soviet people know full well that the oppression of the working people, the domination of the capitalist class and imperialist war have nothing in common with the laws of biology. These phenomena are all governed by the laws of decaying bourgeois, capitalist society, which has outlived its day. Nor is there any intraspecific competition in nature itself.”
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist and geneticist known for his theories on the inheritance of acquired characteristics and his role in the Soviet agricultural policies. Born on September 29, 1898, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, Lysenko's theories were based on Lamarckian evolution and became highly influential in Soviet agricultural policies during the 1930s and 1940s. He was appointed Director of the Institute of Plant Industry in Moscow and gained significant political influence. Lysenko's theories were later discredited, leading to his downfall and imprisonment. His legacy remains controversial, with his role in the persecution of geneticists and other scientists in the Soviet Union being widely criticized. more
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