[lbo-talk] "Political economy--despite its worldly and wanton appearance--is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences.- Karl Marx

[c b]

This quote is interesting given our many threads with declarations of
the amoral or non-moral quality of Marxism. I don't remember anybody
pointing to this in all our many discussions of Marxism and morality,
but maybe somebody did.

Charles

From: Jim Devine

me:
> of course, this refers to the _bourgeois_ political economy of Marx's day.

CB: > Do you think Marx didn't think of his critique of political
> economy as a contribution to moral science ?

sure, but not to the "moral science" he described in the passage you quoted.

^^^^^^^

CB: Seems like a contribution to that moral science as a critique.