[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Louis Kontos]

What you're friends say about Marx has nothing really do with him --  
which, I suspect you already know.
Regarding the treatment of animals, there's nothing in Marx of  
interest. Though he did live with a dog, a cat, and parrot -- the  
whole food chain.
Louis

  If as my Marxist
> friends say, he scorns morality, or that his philosophy finds no room
> for the humane treatment of animals, I am further discouraged from
> spending time on him. (And what is the context where someone says
> something like "It is unimportant to know the world; it is only
> important to change it"?).