Marxism and Ethics
A collection of articles by Marxists on the ethical problems of Marxism.
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Social-Democracy
Ethics of Social-Democracy, Joseph Dietzgen 1875
E. Belfort Bax
Socialism and Religion, June 1884 Civil Law under Socialism, July 1886 The Ethics of Socialism, November 1889 Equality not Privilege, August 1893 Religion and Socialism, June 1895 The Ethics of Socialism, 1893 Wanted, A New Morality?, May 1900 Religion v. Ethics, September 1901 The Ethics of Socialism, September 1904 Beyond Selfish and Unselfish, December 1904 Christianity and Socialism, January 1905 Christianity and Socialism, February 1905 Christianity and Socialism, February 1906 Socialist Ethics and Private Charity, April 1906 Moral Book Keeping by Double Entry, August 1906 Why Attack Religion, August 1906 Socialism and Religion, September 1906 Patriotism and Ethics, July 1907 The Legal Subjection of Men, October 1909 Problems of Mind and Morals, 1912
Social Democracy
The Ethics of New Unionism, by W. G. Spence 1892 The Rights of the Horse and the Rights of Man, Paul Lafargue 1900 The Socialist Ideal, Paul Lafargue 1900 Some Ethical Problems, May Wood Simmons 1900 Ethics and the Materialist conception of History, Kautsky 1906 Tactics and Ethics, Lukács 1919
The Bolsheviks
Communist Morality, Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1908-1926 Tasks of the Youth Leagues, Lenin, 1920 On Ethics, Krupskaya, 1924 - 1936 Marxism and Law, Evgeny Pashukanis, 1891 - 1937
Alexandra Kollontai
The New Woman, 1920 Communism and the Family, 1920 Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations, 1921 Prostitution and ways of fighting it, 1921 Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle, 1921
Leon Trotsky
The Transformation of Morals 1923 What is Proletarian Culture and Is it Possible? 1923 Their Morals & Ours, 1936 Moralists and Sycophants Against Marxism, 1939 Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party, 1940
Lev Vygotsky
Ethical Behaviour, 1926 The Socialist alteration of Man, 1930
Christopher Caudwell
Pacifism and Violence. A Study in Bourgeois Ethics, c. 1935
Modern Writers
The Ethical Foundations of Marxism, Eugene Kamenka, 1962 Marxian Humanism & the Crisis in Socialist Ethics, Kamenka, 1965 Socialist Humanism, Paul Mattick, 1965 The Ethic of Knowledge & the Socialist Ideal, Jacques Monod, 1970
Recent Marxists
Marx's Ethic of Freedom, George Brenkert, 1983 The Controversy About Marx and Justice, Norman Geras, 1989 Ethical Marxism, Lawrence Wilde, 1998 Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses, Norman Geras, 2000
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Marx & Engels on Ethics
Links to relevant and often quoted passages from Marx & Engels' works.
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On the Thefts of Wood, Marx, 1842 On the Jewish Question, Marx, 1844 Human Needs & the Division of Labour, Marx, 1844 The German Ideology, Marx & Engels, 1845 Wage Labour & Capital, Marx, 1847 Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels, 1848 Suppression of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Marx & Engels, 1849 Letter from Marx to Engels. 4 November 1864 Capital Volume I, Marx, 1867 Capital Volume III, Marx On the Housing Question, Engels, 1872 Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx, 1875 Anti-Dühring, Engels, 1877
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Classics of Ethics 1673 - 1913 and modern ethics (Reference Archive)
The Magna Carta, 1215 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789