In _Capital_ , Marx says "imagination " ( a form of symboling ) is the differentia specifica of human labour from that of the spider or bee. But otherwise seems to consider labour as human species essence: thus _working_ class ethics.
Importantly , I doubt Marx and Engels realized or imagined that the Stone Age was 2.5 million years ; and that labour was very light in it; and that the genus homo lived by its wits and names , words and family trees more than by hard work with hands . Originally for our species the labour of the head is more important than hand labour ( which , anyway , is in a section of the brain or head) . Labour of the hand _is_ labour of the head .
This was in Morgan's Societas. With Civitas, civilization, starting 6,000 years ago, private property , greed, slavery invention of heavy , oppressed , exploited labour, slaves working so hard to produce surpluses, the wealth of the wealthy.
The human species instinct for less labour , not more, to meet our needs of individual self-preservation, our instinct for more leisure = freedom, IS THE NATURAL INSTINCT UNDERLYING OPPRESSED CLASSES STRUGGLE in the history of Morgan's Civitas (Marx and Engels's Written History in the first sentence of the Manifesto of the Communist Party). Class struggle is INSTINCTIVE for humans against class oppression, with toil, hard labour, as the main oppression imposed. That Marx and Engels treat class struggle against oppression as a Written History universal, a trans-historical category , implies that it is biologically , not culturally based.
I , Charles Brown, have a critique of Uncle Fred on this issue: unique human consciousness originates in reproductive practice , not practice in the struggle for existence.
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2022/01/shortening-of-work-day-is-realm-of.html
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