--- Michael Dawson <MDawson at pdx.edu> wrote:
> 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...
>
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