Morality
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All of which, of course, brings into focus the question of morality which, unfortunately, some comrades tend to want to brush under the carpet as being irrelevant to the socialist project.
The carpet must be a bit lumpy. There seems to be quite lot on the subject here. A quick vacuuming uncovered.
Sting in the Tail: Market Morality
Market Morality While Iraqi and UN forces throw rockets, missiles and bombs at each other in the Gulf with little or no thought of the cost, it is interesting to note that the National Health Service in Britain is somewhat more parsimonious. Managers at a hospital in Manchester have refused to pay for a …
Book Review: Morality and hunger
International Justice and the Third World. Ed. Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins. Routledge. 1992. This is a collection of essays by moral philosophers on the apparent dilemma raised by the plight of the Third World: have the people of the developed capitalist parts of the world a moral duty to cut back on their personal …
50 Years Ago: The Morality of Capitalism
As goods were produced, not that they should be used by their producers, but only to be sold at a profit, the quality of the articles was of little concern to the manufacturer so long as the purchaser could be deceived. The sale of adulterated foodstuffs, for instance, spread to proportions which would have seemed …
50 Years Ago: Morality and Property
Under a system of chattel-slavery sheer physical force was almost the sole means of holding the slaves in subjection. It was not necessary for a community of interests between master and slave to be hypocritically assumed and inculcated. What the slaves thought was of little or no consequence to their owners: morality was considered no …
Class Interests, Not Morality, Determine Policies (1958)
In the Sunday Times on the 10th August Rebecca West wrote an article in a series “The Destiny of Man” that commenced with an article by Julian Huxley.The Ethics of Marxism pt.3 Human Nature and Morality
After Marx died there grew up a legend that his theory of social causation was too narrowly mechanistic to provide accommodation for any sort of ethics. No doubt Marx, in combating the sentimental “moralising” of certain utopian contemporaries who called themselves “the True Socialists,” had leaned so far backward as to give semblance if not substance for fathering on him views whose alleged paternity he would have disclaimed.
Socialism as a Humanism
Human Nature and Morality
After Marx died there grew up a legend that his theory of social causation was too narrowly mechanistic to provide accommodation for any sort of ethics. No doubt Marx, in combating the sentimental “moralising” of certain Utopian contemporaries who called themselves “the True Socialists”, had leaned so far backward as to give semblance if not substance for fathering on him views whose alleged paternity he would have disclaimed.
Pathfinders: The Science of Morality, the Morality of Science
A friend recently remarked that she had been obliged to take her cat to the vet for the third time this year. When asked if the animal had contracted some nasty virus she replied: “Oh, it’s nothing like that. My cat suffers from depression.” If the cat had been present to witness the ensuing howls of laughter from the assembled throng, he would no doubt have gone into terminal decline. And, strange as it may seem, he would be right to deplore such a display of callous human ignorance. For feline depression, as it turns out, is nothing unusual, with eight out of ten vets in one survey reporting cases of stress and depression in animals left alone at home while their owners go out to work (BBC Online, 25 August 05).
The carpet must be a bit lumpy. There seems to be quite lot on the subject here. A quick vacuuming uncovered.
Ha Ha nice one Matt. No I was thinking back to the thread – cant locate it anymore unfortunately – concerning whether the case for socialism was also a moral one and not just a matter of class self interest. I take the view that is both and endorse Engels comment about the need for a “class morality” but others must have been taking a contrary view arguing that morality has nothing to do with establishing socialism
We have covered the case of morality several times
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