Why does this matter? Anything anybody feels is a product (largely) of the social relations in which they exist.
I'm also starting to get annoyed by the idea that there is a specifically capitalist morality totally incommensurable with those that exist in noncapitalist societies. People throughout history have generally considered cheating and lying to be bad.
--- On Wed, 12/24/08, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> --Hypothesis: the "actual moral impulses" that
> people feel are a product of social relations. Thus
> capitalism does not simply censor some authentic,
> preexisting morality; rather, it creates
> "authentic" moral impulses that are construed as
> natural by the people in a capitalist society.
>
> Miles
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