thanks should have been more careful. I find it difficult to keep clear what was Feurebach and what was Engels when he was tearing into him too. With sloppiness I quoted Engels from a note I had made then got twitchy and checked and then started thumbing through and noticed the cat but he was a bit of a cheshire one it seems - which is not to blame the cat. P On 24/02/2013, at 1:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> Ha, >> >> I checked Engels on class morality and discovered he thought the cat an > evil >> creature - probably best not raised on an Eliot list. >> >> cheers Pete >> > > It was -Dühring who offered The Cat as an image of evil. Engels was mocking > Dühring (near the end of _Anti-Dühring_. > > Engels was limited in comparison to Marx, but I would prefer Fred to Karl > as a roommate. ;-> > > And thinking of great men and their women: I believe Einstein was rather > unkind to his first wife. > > Carrol