snit snat wrote:
You seem to suggest that Marx would necessarily care about it the same way(s) we care about it today. This, below, isn't offered as a simplistic suggestion that Marx was a "racist." Rather, it's to suggest that maybe this famous line is more about how to advance class struggle in the 'correct' direction:
I don't suggest anything -- what diff does it make what Marx would think today? I was using the half-remembered assertion as a touchstone. My actual thesis was that unless we restore some reality/urgency to the common good, there is no hope. I also argued that this is not possible if people cannot see that this common good must include everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or (dis)ability.
Joanna