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Kant, the animal question, and an ethics of revolution
Bill Martin’s recent book Ethical Marxism is subtitled The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, and the ethics which Martin proposes must be made integral to a reconstituted Marxism is very much a Kantian one. This aspect of Martin’s perspective, along with others, is taken up in this, the final portion, of Vern Gray’s essay, “On Some [...]
Ethics, human nature, and questions of inevitability
Following is a continuation, parts 3 and 4, of Vern Gray’s essay, “On Some Questions Provoked by a Reading of Bill Martin’s Ethical Marxism.” Parts 1 and 2 were published yesterday here. The final parts of this essay will be posted soon, along with a pdf of the whole. III. Human Nature Contrary to the [...]
Ethical Marxism: some themes and questions
The relation of ethics to Marxism has been a long-discussed and debated question, especially since Marx himself seemed to eschew ethical and moral thinking as necessary to communist reasoning. “The communists do not preach morality at all,” Marx and Engels say in the 1845 German Ideology. “They do not put to people the moral demand: [...]
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