> Chris D cannot make an argument against cannibalism because no
> ahistorical (moral) argument would bevalid. But from ahistorical
> perspective the present period almost universally condemns it. As Marx,
> in contrast to Rousseau, thought capitalism history rather than evil, so
> was cannibalism history rather than evil (or wrong).
"In the historical conditions of the ancient world, and particularly of Greece, the advance to a society based on class antagonisms could be accomplished only in the form of slavery. This was an advance even for the slaves; the prisoners of war, from whom the mass of the slaves was recruited, now at least saved their lives, instead of being killed as they had been before, or even roasted, as at a still earlier period." http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch16.htm
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