On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
> Marx was trying to downplay the reformers who based their program on
> morality. Marx was saying that the problem was not individual
> employers unjustly ripping off their workers. The problem was the
> rules of the system. In short, he was denying justice as a basis for
> political organizing, calling for what he considered to be a
> scientific
> basis.
Yeah that's the standard line, but do you really believe it? Sure he was annoyed by the screeching moralists of his day, as am I by their counterparts today, but why object to capitalism if it didn't offend you in some moral/ethical sense? What other basis is there for revolutionary politics?
Doug