![]() ![]() These undoubtedly show a certain aesthetic quality. This theory has recently been disputed because of the discovery of certain artefacts belonging to a pre-human species - Neanderthal Man. It is a fact that one of the first serious indications of the emergence of our species, homo sapiens sapiens, is the existence of art, that is to say in a concrete expression of aesthetic sense. Yet art is actually is one of the fundamental aspects of the human condition - so fundamental, that some anthropologists believe that one can express the beginnings of our species through the emergence of art. Some people consider that art is a secondary matter, not really important. And perhaps for some of you this requires justification. ![]() This is the first time that we have discussed this subject at an international meeting. The speech was given at a Marxist Summer School in Barcelona (Spain), in July 2001. We publish here the transcript of a speech by Alan Woods on the subject of the relationship between Art and the Class Struggle. ![]()
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