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    PartisanZ
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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.

    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: 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 …

    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).

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    robbo203
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    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

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    We have covered the case of morality several times

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