>>> James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> 10/21/99 06:21AM >>
Interstingly enough other Marxist thinkers who were quite
different from Kautsky have likewise been partial to
utilitatarianism. Thus the Frankfurter, Herbert Marcuse
took a favorable view of John Stuart Mill's brand of utilitarianism.
And more redently the Marxist philosopher Derek Allen
in his paper "The Utilitarianism of Marx and Engels,"
*American Philosophical Quarterly 10 (1973) made the case
that Marx & Engels were implicitly utilitarians in terms of
the value judgements that they made in their work.
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Charles: To the extent socialism shifts from production for exchange to production for use, "utility" seems to come to the fore.
CB