Isn't Engels just following Hegel here, that part in the Phenomenology about physically assimilating the object?
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Conservatism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:06 PM
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> On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:58 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
>
> > Oh, and Scruton wasn't the first to say that
> meat-eating was a mark of the higher species - Engels also
> insists that the vegetarians got it wrong, meat was a vital
> leap in evolution.
>
> Ah! A stage-ist approach to evolution. Engels was clearly a
> species-ist.
>
> Doug
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