[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 cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 13:25:19 PST 2013


From: ronpeterson1

Engels in Anti-D?hring says: " From a scientific standpoint, this appeal to morality and justice does not help us an inch further; moral indignation, however justifiable, cannot serve economic science as an argument, but only as a symptom. "

-- Ron

^^^^^ CB: Thanks for finding that. I'm thinking now that Marx's use of "moral science" in that time might have more of the connotation of today's "psychological science" ? Morality-psychology is super-structure and political economy is base. That would fit with morality-psychology being determined and a symptom of political economy.



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