Engels is interesting but also whenever I'm reading his stuff I keep getting distracted by thinking about the fact that he would think I eat people lmao

“But the tribes which figure in books as living entirely, that is, exclusively, by hunting never existed in reality; the yield of the hunt was far too precarious. At this stage, owing to the continual uncertainty of food supplies, cannibalism seems to have arisen, and was practiced from now onwards for a long time. The Australian aborigines and many of the Polynesians are still in this middle stage of savagery today.”

excerpt from Engels' "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

the dude made points tho about other things! But also I just keep thinking about hdkdjdkfjdlfkjf
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inviting this man to dinner to talk about theory and watching him sweat while I serve him pineapple friedrice

this is not a criticism of marxism or communism btw. As a polynesian who may or may not eat people, down with capitalism :3

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Engels is now my lunchbreak reading because I'm soooo fuckign funny

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