[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

[c b]

One further point. Ollman notes, as Doug has before, that Marx
repeatedly condemned capitalism and approved of communist social
relations (cue Ted W). However, those acts of condemnation and
approval are not logical inferences from some pre-existing universal
standards of morality that Marx advocates; rather, they are contingent
products of the social relations in which those acts are embedded.
(See Ollman for an explication of this.) --So: does Marx engage in
"appeals to morality"? If you mean "does he approve of some things and
condemn others?", sure, in this trivial sense, Marx is a moralist. If
you mean "does he approve of some things and condemn others based on
abstract moral principles?", Marx is clearly not a moralist.

Miles

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CB:  Marx's approves and condemns based on abstract principles, though
even if they aren't "moral" , no ?

Ah , yes, Ollman's _Alienation_.  Marx and Engels' words are like bats.