Even more interesting is the next section, in which the slave ants become aware of this inversion of dependence and develop a version of stoic philosophy.
Could you say a little more about where you see Marx jumping off here? If the slave is the proletariat, does the rest of Hegel's narrative explain anything interesting?
Technically, the Queen Ant is a slave to the colony. And those "free" male ants (drones) don't have very long lifespans ... think of them as football players of the ant world.
Could you say a little more about where you see Marx jumping off here? If the slave is the proletariat, does the rest of Hegel's narrative explain anything interesting?
Interestingly enough, enslaved ants also can revolt and go on to slaughter their captors children:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discob…
And Natural.
And Normal.....
Lots of sex and then they die.
I know, its just a small thing, but just think- if everyone did it, what a huge difference it would make...
the past cannot return, the present is a poor substitute.
i miss my own mortal coil dearly.