The Economics and Education of Suicide Bombers: Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?
Author(s)
Krueger, Alan B.; Maleckova, J.
Abstract
There is no doubt that Marx and Engels rejected animal rights. However, they did embrace the communist principle, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need.” Furthermore, they acknowledge that nonhuman animals have needs. So the principle can enjoin us to respect animals’ needs, even if they lack certain abilities (e.g., tool-making, perhaps even self-consciousness). Sztybel argues that it is essentially speciesist to restrict this principle to human beings, and that its acceptance implies either animal rights or a substantive equivalent. Marxism may have to undergo a profound dialectical transformation in light of the implications of its own maxim.
