Cheap Morality, was Re: anti-zionism

[Carl Remick]

>Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>>Marxism, like any other substantive set of political positions, relies in
>>large part on value judgments for whatever force it may be said to 
>>possess.
>>Slightly more succinctly: the Marxist eschewal of "rigorous moral 
>>positions"
>>is ultimately self-defeating.
>
>Or a self-delusion. I know that moral/ethical positions are
>unscientific, and Marx wanted heroically to be scientific, but really
>now - why care about exploitation, immiseration, polarization,
>alienation and the rest if you don't have some moral/ethical notion
>of what the good life should be like? Why not drop the pretense? It
>might have made sense at one time, but now it looks false and silly.
>
>Doug

Damn straight.  I think I've referred earlier on the list to Marxism as the 
morality that dare not speak its name.  Moral claims seem so prissy, so 
wispy, when you look at what they're up against, but I think ultimately 
superior morality is the only thing the left has going for it.

Carl

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