This makes sense. What doesn't make a lot of sense is the repeated insistence of many PEN-Lers that there is no place for moral/ethical considerations in discussions about capitalism etc. -raghu.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:17 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd say there is morality or ethics of equality of all human beings >> implied in historical materialism or the theory underpinning _The >> Manifesto of the Communist Party_ . > > > > I am glad to hear a Marxist admit that there is any kind of morality or > ethics in any of Marx's work, rather than just "objective science". > -raghu. > > > > ================ > > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/#5 > > There are certainly reasons to believe that Marx did not want to make > moral assessments at all, for example, in the *Communist Manifesto* he > writes that “communism abolishes … all religion and all morality, rather > than constituting them on a new basis”. However, it may be that Marx here > is taking morality in a rather narrow sense. On a broad understanding, in > which morality, or perhaps better to say ethics, is concerning with the > idea of living well, it seems that communism can be assessed favourably in > this light. One compelling argument is that Marx's career simply makes no > sense unless we can attribute such a belief to him. But beyond this we can > be brief in that the considerations adduced in section 2 above apply again. > Communism clearly advances human flourishing, in Marx's view. The only > reason for denying that, in Marx's vision, it would amount to a good > society is a theoretical antipathy to the word ‘good’. And here the main > point is that, in Marx's view, communism would not be brought about by > high-minded benefactors of humanity. Quite possibly his determination to > retain this point of difference between himself and the Utopian socialists > led him to disparage the importance of morality to a degree that goes > beyond the call of theoretical necessity. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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