[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[Philp Pilkington]

"and even if interpreted
that way is STILL not an ethical principle but a practice dictated by
the development of a communist society, a social not an ethical
principle, and actually a practice rather than a principle."

That seems like linguistic sophistry to me. Social/ethical;
practice/principle, these are plays on words. Ethics is always related to
the rest of society, its always dialectically grounded in the social link,
even when it appears otherwise. As for practice and principle it seems the
same thing, principles never meant anything unless they were practiced...