>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>I do think it wrong to call capitalism immoral, for reasons analogous to
>>the reasons Miles has been giving on the other issue. Morality is
>>history-bound, not transcendent. Hence the charge that capitalism is
>>immoral or unethical is a claim that the judge is outside history, but
>>that is the implicit claim in all capitalist ideology.
>>
>>
>NO. Placing the right to private property over the right to life
>(and quality of life) is immoral.
Oh, but Carrol is taking too seriously Marx's rejection of "morality" in favor of "science." But what other reason is there to object to exploitation, if not morality? I think it's pretty safe to drop that 19th century remnant; the rest of the Marxian system could survive nicely.
Doug