"For exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, the bourgeoisie has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." - Communist Manifesto.
No normative sense of morals expressed there, eh? I would think if you were paying the classical Marxist angle you would say proletarian morality existed in contradiction to capitalist morality -- the germ of the new society in the shell of the old -- instead of the absolute statement that "the only morality available is capitalist morality," which is pretty ridiculous.
-B.
Carrol Cox wrote:
"I have no moral objections to capitalism. That is absurd, since the only 'morality' available is capitalist morality. Marx does not 'oppose' capitalism ideologically; but Rousseau does. For Marx, it is history;"