>>> Doug Henwood
Michael Smith wrote:
> He certainly hated capitalism. But his justification
> for expropriating the expropriators isn't founded
> on the immorality of the latter, is it? That would
> presuppose some moral framework (founded on what?)
> existing over and above or outside of the historical
> dialectic.
So what's behind an outburst like: "If money, According to Augier, 'comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,' capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt"? Detached scientific observation?
^^^ CB: The letter Marx wrote as a student to his father said he had found a way to unite "the is and the ought" not discard "the ought". ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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