Good and Bad: Banality of moral comparisons over time

[Kelley]

At 02:16 PM 11/17/01 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
>You simply haven't said anything when you point
>out that capitalism has good sides and bad sides. There is no
>contradiction involved in that observation.
>
>So what is the argument all about?

but Marx did point it out, didn't he? he did so because he was objecting to 
the moralizing of those on the right who rejected capitalism, wishing to 
effect a reactionary movement back in time to the good ol' days.

similarly, some on the left engage in such moralizing. they don't wish "to 
go back" but "go forward". they justify the renunciation of, say, 
participatory democratic political processes as merely bourgeouis as 
opposed to the progressiveness of democratic centralism or the reunuciation 
of free speech as bourgeois claptrap that ought to be tossed to the dust 
bin of history and replaced with some progressive form of "correctness" 
(Charles Brown, esq).

kelley