Marx had enthused about blood and soil as determinants of culture in Pierre Tremaux’s Origine et transformations de l’homme et des autres êtres (1865): “In its historical and political applications [Tremaux’s work is] far more significant and pregnant than Darwin. For certain questions, such as nationality, etc., only here has a basis in nature been found…likewise (he spent a long time in Africa) he shows that the common negro type is only a degeneration of a far higher one.”
His boss concurred
Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): "We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor".
Garbage in
Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: "The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc."
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