Re: Marx and Justice
On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
Marx was trying to downplay the reformers who based their program on morality. Marx was saying that the problem was not individual employers unjustly ripping off their workers. The problem was the rules of the system. In short, he was denying justice as a basis for political organizing, calling for what he considered to be a
scientific basis.
Yeah that’s the standard line, but do you really believe it? Sure he
was annoyed by the screeching moralists of his day, as am I by their
counterparts today, but why object to capitalism if it didn’t offend
you in some moral/ethical sense? What other basis is there for
revolutionary politics?
Doug