What this approach did was very positive in one respect -- for much of his work, he did not denouce capitalists personally, but saw them as the character maxks of capital.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:13:33PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > 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
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