[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

Philp Pilkington pilkingtonphil at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 15:42:56 PST 2008


"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...



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