Rakes Bhandari:

Yet Docile Body (great name) Marx spared no sarcasm in his response 
to those who argued for wage gains in the name of justice and 
fairness. As if there was a just size for the provision lot granted a 
slave. The Andies have suggested that Marx's emphasis on human 
flourishing is not necessarily "ethical" in character, and may well 
have grounded his politics. What do we mean by ethics?
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Jim F.:

I wouldn't pretend to speak for Andie, but I suspect that when Andie
saus that Marx's emphasis on human flourishing was not necessarily
"ethical" in character, he is using the term "ethical" in the rather
technical sense that the term is used by contemporary analytical moral
philosophers.  For them, not all normative judgments are necessarily
"ethical."  Analytical moral philosophers sometimes talk about what
they call a "moral point of view" which normative judgments would have
to conform to if they are to be labeled as "ethical".  Richard Miller
in his book "Analyzing Marx," used such considerations to defend the
thesis that Marx was an "amoralist" and that was a "good" thing about him.