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Engels: First labour, after it and then with it speech – these were the two
most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the
ape gradually
What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape to man ?
This essay uses labor in the sense that it is something that apes
do. So, it is not the labor ( or is it work ?) that produces
capitalist surplus value in _Capital_I, but the more general labor
that Marx describes in Chapter
All extant anthropoid apes can stand erect and move about on their
feet alone, but only in case of urgent need and in a very clumsy way.
Their natural gait is in a half-erect posture and includes the use of
the hands. The majority rest the knuckles of the fist on the ground
and, with legs drawn
http://mehring.com/part-played-by-labor.html
In this short pamphlet, written over 130 years ago, Engels presents
his understanding of the key factors in human evolution, using the
dialectical materialist method and what little was known about human
physical and cultural evolution. Engels'
The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
Contents
Section 1 - The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
Section 2 - The Production of Surplus-Value
CB What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape to man ?
This essay uses labor in the sense that it is something that apes
do. So, it is not the labor ( or is it work ?) that produces
capitalist surplus value in _Capital_I, but the more general labor
that Marx describes in
As Marx says, Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and
especially on his countrymen, when he showed that free competition, the struggle
for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical
achievement, is the normal state of the Animal Kingdom.
Was
Engels: Much more important is the direct, demonstrable influence of the
development of the hand on the rest of the organism. It has already
been noted that our simian ancestors were gregarious; it is obviously
impossible to seek the derivation of man, the most social of all
animals, from
Engels: But the decisive step had
been taken, the hand had become free and could henceforth attain ever
greater dexterity; the greater flexibility thus acquired was inherited
and increased from generation to generation.
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CB: Ahhh but how ? How did the experience of repetition of use of _a_
Engels: First labour, after it and then with it speech – these were the two
most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the
ape gradually changed into that of man, which, for all its similarity
is far larger and more perfect.
CB: The relationships between labour , speech and
The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
Engels:
Comparison with animals proves that this explanation of the origin of
language from and in the process of labour is the only correct one.
^
CB: Language would be just as important in enhancing sexual union between
males
In re, discussion of difference between apes and man (sic).
in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.
Yes, but as Marx had said in _Capital_ , human labor is distinguished by its
planning in imagination ahead of time, making it thickly social. It is
activity saturated with
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