Influences on Karl Marx was "much more important and copious than Darwin". Although there is no mention of Darwin in "The Communist Manifesto" (published eleven years prior to "The Origin of Species"), Marx includes two explicit references to Darwin and evolution in the second edition of "Das Kapital", in two footnotes where he relates Darwin's theory to his opinion about production and technology development. In the Volume I, Chapter 14: "The Detail Labourer and his implements", Section 2, Marx referred to Darwin's "Origin of Species" as an "epoch-making work" while in Chapter 15, Section I took on the comparison of organs of plants to
The Communist Manifesto publicly owned etc.—the implementation of which would result in the precursor to a stateless and classless society. The third section, "Socialist and Communist Literature", distinguishes communism from other socialist doctrines prevalent at the time—these being broadly categorised as Reactionary Socialism; Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism; and Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism. While the degree of reproach toward rival perspectives varies, all are dismissed for advocating reformism and failing to recognise the pre-eminent revolutionary role of the working class. "Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Opposition Parties", the concluding section of the "Manifesto", briefly discusses the communist position on struggles