[Xmca-l] Re: The Anatomy of the Ape

[Andy Blunden]

The aphorism was reproduced in
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/index.htm
, Appendix 1, published in German in Berlin in 1859, most of
which is found verbatim in The Grundrisse.

Andy


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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 22/11/2017 10:08 AM, David Kellogg wrote:
> Vygotsky cites, in the Historical Meaning of the Crisis of Psychology,
> Marx's rather cryptic remark in the Grundrisse about human anatomy holding
> the key to the anatomy of the ape. He uses this elsewhere (in his
> discussions of psychotechnics and pedology) and obviously finds it an
> important remark. More, he is perfectly aware of its non-teleological
> character: he knows that saying that humans developed from apes is not the
> same thing as saying that apes are fated to become humans.
>
> But how did Vygotsky know this? As far as I can figure out, the Grundrisse
> wasn't published until 1939, five years after Vygotsky's death. Did
> Vygotsky have privileged access? Or is there some other place where Marx
> says this that I don't know about?
>
> David Kellogg
>
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