[lbo-talk] Living beyond one's means

[Somebody Somebody]

It's
still not clear to me what imperative is compelling us to bury
capitalism outside of any ethical framework. We're under no obligation
from history or the dialectic or any other useful abstraction to do
anything. Or is Carrol making the philosophical distinction between
morality (perhaps a shorthand for bourgeois morality only?) and
normative ethics? Suppose we want to demolish capitalism. Either we do
it because the mode of production is intrinsically evil or the
consequences flowing from capitalist relations are evil. 

For
example, we can take Proudhon's position and say "Capitalism is theft",
hence it is necessarily wrong based upon it's premises. Or we could
argue, infant mortality and literacy rates in country X would be better
under a system of worker's ownership of the means of production.
There's no escaping morality, which as physical anthropologists will
tell you, appears to extend to our primate kin.