[lbo-talk] Missing the Marx

[Michael Dawson]

P.S.  Marx objected to talk of "unfairness" and "injustice" not because
there isn't any happening, but because those he objected to wanted to stick
at that level only and not analyze the material origins and logic of
exploitation.  He was combating philosophical idealism (dissociating ethical
categories from underlying social/material processes), not rejecting ethical
anaylsis.

In other words, he was against premature talk of injustice, not all talk of
it.

Too bad he himself wasn't more careful in his argument.  If he had been,
perhaps the left wouldn't be so plagued by its bumbling hostility to this
issue today...