[lbo-talk] My Aristotle rant, was: Re: Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Mar 27 05:32:39 PDT 2009


Eubulides wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Pilkington" <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com>
>
> > Well, I can only answer where my ethics come from....
> >
> > Rationality.
> >
> > That's all I can say. I believe that if people can adhere to rationality
> > they can "sublate" [aufhebung] the current order. But this means a total
> > adherence to, as Marx put it, a "criticism of absolutely everything".
>
> ============
>
> Except rationality............

A rational understanding of capitalist ideology leads to a repudiation to grounding anti-capitalist politics in a moral condemnation of capitalism. Moralism also leads, in fact is grounded in, a radical separation of means and ends, of motive and action, of theory and practice.

Carrol



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