> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Ted
Was this ever actually the case? Or is it just Marx being Victorian?