[lbo-talk] On the threat from religion: Ziyad Husami

[Chris Doss]

I never quite got the notion of a "capitalist standard of justice," as if the notion of good and bad behaviors was invented by capitalists. The capitalist standard looks quite similar to all other standards, as far as I can tell.

--- On Sat, 11/22/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] On the threat from religion: Ziyad Husami
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 10:09 AM
> Well, on 'Docile Body' B's advice, I read Ziyad
> Husami's Marx on Distributive Justice, and I can
> understand now why he is not much referred to on this side
> of the Atlantic, nor I suspect all that much on the other
> side. All in all Husami does not understand historical
> specificity, the key to Marx's social theory, which is
> how he can confuse capitalist standards of justice with the
> broader goal of human emancipation. It is a bit of a bore
> that one has to constantly re-invent the wheel.
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