[lbo-talk] sex at the margins

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 08:17:56 PDT 2009


Carrol Cox wrote:


> It is interesting how deeply impossible it is for so many not to be able
> to comprehend an adverse judgment on other than moralistic grounds. I'm
> not sure if "moralism" is the right term here, but something like it
> must be one of the fundamental perspectives of contemporary ideology. (I
> use "ideology" as a rought synonym for "common sense," which as Engels
> pointed out, often goes wildly astray.) I'm beginning to think that that
> old overused commie phrase "petty bourgeiois moralism" names a really
> deep feature of conservative ideolgy, one that even radical leftist have
> a hard time escaping.
>

This stuff is hilarious. Half your posts decry the "horror" wreaked by capitalist-imperialism. The other half decry other people's "moralism."

Personally, I find hypocrisy to be deeply, deeply morally wrong - but I assure you I mean in that in a completely non-moralistic way.

SA



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