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_ . Because class struggle resistance to exploitation and oppression by the exploited and oppressed classes is trans-historical, in all historical epochs and modes of production; and therefore must not be historically determined but part of human nature. If in every historical instance of class exploitation and oppression there arises class struggle resistance , the urge to resist must be naturally instinctive , in our genes,not learned. Nature, not nurture. For what ruling class would allow an education and enculturation system that instilled a spirit of resistance and class struggle in the masses of the working classes ? So, the struggle to be equal to the rich in history as a history of class struggles is a human natural and ,therefore natural moral law by inference from its empirical universality.
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