Doing a Kant)

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Thu Oct 21 07:08:52 PDT 1999



>>> 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



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