Raghu: Are we just arguing about choice of words? Is, say, "slavery" also an abstraction? Is it incorrect to think that slavery is morally wrong?
The proposition makes no sense. Yes, slavery is an abstraction and calling it moral or immoral is non-sense; it's incoherent. Why do you think immorality is bad? What is the basis of morality? Or, why is exploitation immoral? What are your grounds for this judgment? It is a relationship, a relationship that exists behind the backs as it were of those whose actions instance it. They have no choice, and damning them does not damn the relationship, which is what needs to be destroyed. (End the Wages System; and that can only be done by the self-liquidation of the Proletariat. Carrol P.S. As Tamas says, it's hard to be a Marxists: " It is emotionally and intellectually difficult to be a Marxist since it goes against the grain of moral indignation which is, of course, the main reason people become socialists." But it is _not_ difficult, _after_ becoming socialist, to transcend that biographical fact. "Now that my ladder's gone / I must like down where all the ladders start / In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." My premise is the necessity to destroy capitalism. Bourgeois morality (and the phrase is redundant, there is no other kind) gets in the way of building a movement for democracy (i.e., socialism). _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
