On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:46 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> "For example, Marx claims that when a communist stands in front of
> 'a crowd of scrofulous, overworked and consumptive starvelings', he
> sees 'the necessity, and at the same time the condition, of a
> transformation both of industry and of the social structure'.12 Marx
> is asserting that for those who share his outlook these 'facts'
> contain their own condemnation and a call to do something about
> them. If an individual ''''chooses otherwise, it is not because he
> had made a contrary moral judgment, but because the particular
> relations in which he stands (the class to which he belongs, his
> personal history, etc.) have led him to a different appreciation of
> the facts.13"
>
> Obviously, Carrol has been saying this over and over for at least
> the last five years that I've paid attention. I don't recall too
> much emphasis on this during the early war years of LBO. At any
> rate, the point is that people come to their moral positions -- to
> their recognition that something is immoral -- because of their
> location in the social structure, through the unique confluence of
> experiences in that social structure.
>
> The ability to make that moral judgment is the result of that social
> and political praxis *in* the worl
Except that there's an enormous variation in worldviews - morals, whatever - with a class.