对于恩格斯的论文《劳动在从猿到人转变过程中的作用》,在我国理论界历来就有不同的理解和争论,大体可分为两个阶段。从解放初到70年代末,争论是在肯定劳动创造人类的基础上进行的,讨论的是其中一些具体问题。主要的如先有劳动还是先有人,什么叫劳动,人类的本质或人猿界限问题等。 Engels’s essay, “The Role of Labor in the Transition from Ape to Human,” has always had different understandings and controversies in the theoretical circles in our country and can be roughly divided into two stages. From the early days of liberation to the late 1970s, the debate was based on the affirmation of labor to create mankind and discussed some of these specific issues. The main ones are labor first, labor first, human nature or the apes boundary.