[lbo-talk] To each according to work

[Eubulides]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> At 9:44 AM -0400 23/4/08, Ted Winslow quoted:
>
>
>  >If correctly understood interest is
>  >the principle of all morality, man's private interest must be made to
>  >coincide with the interest of humanity.
>
>  I couldn't put it better myself, but luckily for us John Donne could:
>
>    "No man is an island, entire of itself; every
>    man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
>    main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
>    Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
>    were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or
>    of thine own were: any man's death diminishes
>    me, because I am involved in mankind, and
>    therefore never send to know for whom the bells
>    tolls; it tolls for thee."
>
>  The moral is that true solidarity with others is unconditional. It
>  would not even cross the mind of the "universally developed
>  individual", that Ted goes on and on about in every single post, to
>  take the attitude of Mike's little red hen. (See, I told you I
>  couldn't put it better myself.)
>
>  Mind you, that Karl Marx fellow was apparently a bit of an idle
>  malingerer himself. Refused to get a proper job and instead relied on
>  others to support him while he lolled about the house scribbling all
>  sorts of nonsense theories. A useless eater, in other words. I doubt
>  if Mike would pay much heed to the likes of him.
>
>  Bill Bartlett
>  Bracknell Tas

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Never mind that KM, in one of his crabbier moments, considered moral
discourse rubbish.

We won't even go into the issues related to Ted's interpretive claim
above  vis a vis how human beings are capable of disagreements of
staggering proportions; the naive anti-pluralism is appalling. And if
it's sophisticated anti-pluralism, well there's always the thorny
problem of authoritarianism.............

Ian