CB on Marxist morality and ethics Charles Brown I'd say some ethics or morality in Marxism is in the Theses on Feuerbach's emphasis on social practice; doubly social with other people and "to" other people. Ethics or morality has to do with how we treat each other, how we act toward each other. So, when Marx calls for social practical-critical activity in Thesis 1 , he is making an ethical or moral demand on himself //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////"The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism – that of Feuerbach included – is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such. Feuerbach wants sensuous objects, really distinct from the thought objects, but he does not conceive human activity itself as objective activity. Hence, in The Essence of Christianity, he regards the theoretical attitude as the only genuinely human attitude, while practice is conceived and fixed only in its dirty-judaical manifestation. Hence he does not grasp the significance of “revolutionary”, of “practical-critical”, activity." http://www.marxists.org/.../works/1845/theses/theses.htm Theses on Feuerbach www.marxists.org Theses on Feuerbach 8 mins · Edited · Like · Remove Preview Charles Brown Eleven is more clearly ethical. We could say "change the world " _for the better_. In late 20th Century parlance, "Save the World" Thesis Eleven XI The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it http://www.marxists.org/.../works/1845/theses/theses.htm Theses on Feuerbach www.marxists.org Theses on Feuerbach 11 mins · Edited · Like · Remove Preview Charles Brown Marxist morality is that of Social Being, Species-Being ,even. I would say the following is the beginning of more personal and one-on-one ethics in Marxism. I call it what's-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander feminism; which I proudly subscribe to. Oh and please forgive the "essentialism",but I'm a critic of post-modernism and post-structuralism, myself (giggles): " In the approach to woman as the spoil and hand-maid of communal lust is expressed the infinite degradation in which man exists for himself, for the secret of this approach has its unambiguous, decisive, plain and undisguised expression in the relation of man to woman and in the manner in which the direct and natural species-relationship is conceived. The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the relation of man to woman. In this natural species-relationship man’s relation to nature is immediately his relation to man, just as his relation to man is immediately his relation to nature – his own natural destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously manifested, reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence has become nature to man, or to which nature to him has become the human essence of man. From this relationship one can therefore judge man’s whole level of development. From the character of this relationship follows how much man as a species-being, as man, has come to be himself and to comprehend himself; the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of human being to human being. It therefore reveals the extent to which man’s natural behaviour has become human, or the extent to which the human essence in him has become a natural essence – the extent to which his human nature has come to be natural to him. This relationship also reveals the extent to which man’s need has become a human need; the extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become for him a need – the extent to which he in his individual existence is at the same time a social "being. " https://www.marxists.org/.../works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm Private Property and Communism, Marx, 1844 www.marxists.org Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 26 secs · Like · Remove Preview Write a comment... Doğukan Şerifsson 20 hrs What are some major works on Asiatic mode of production and Oriental Despotism? Preferably analysis that is up to date...or should these "orthodox" takes on Asia be disregarded as vulgar generalizations? Also, writing on Ottoman Empire. Any "recent" Marxist scholarly work on Ottoman Empire? Like · · Share 2 people like this. View 13 more comments Dennis Etler I think that the concept has merit, but perhaps not in its original formulation. 14 hours ago · Like Doğukan Şerifsson Indeed, there are some ideas to draw but it is not a law of history set in stone. It is quiet outdated and simplistic. For each case there needs to be a specifically tailored study seeing things in their unique "relations". As a general guide and abstraction, it is useful though. 14 hours ago · Like Dennis Etler Mao sort of used the concept when he characterized China as semi-feudal. Parts of the Asiatic mode of production would entail State monopoly and control of whole industries, the land tenure system based on property rights, a mercantilist foreign trade ...See More 14 hours ago · Like · 1 Karl Horner ernest mandel also uses the concept 12 hours ago · Like Write a comment... Enaa Doug 16 hrs Victor Serge: On the Borders of Victory and Defeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxexlwz6qZ8 Victor Serge: On the Borders of Victory and Defeat Communist historian Doug Enaa Greene lectures on the activist, historian and novelist Victor Serge (1890-1947) at the Center for Marxist Education. Serge was... youtube.com|By dwgthed Like · · Share 3 people like this. Write a comment... Paul Oviedo 17 hrs · Mexico City, Mexico Gracias Alguien dijo, "en cada hombre existe una revolución." See Translation Like · · Share Ramesh Gaddam likes this. Write a comment... Subhajit Roy April 5 at 12:11pm · Durgapur, India Can anyone give me the link or share a free PDF version of The Mind of the Market by Jerry Muller? Like · · Share Asainar Asu http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/view.php?id=352459 23 hours ago · Like · 1 Subhajit Roy Lots of thanks.... I was searching for this book for long.... 18 hours ago · Like Write a comment... OLDER POSTS David Faunt Le Roy Yesterday at 5:13am Anyone know of any SW or CW of James P. Cannon? I've been accumulating his books but can't find anything like the wide MIA selections. Like · · Share Diane Dayton Fauntleroy Anderson likes this. Einde O'Callaghan The MIA collection is the largest collection of Cannon's writings - since the organisation he founded and led (the US SWP) has abandoned the politics he represented it's most unlikely that they'll ever publish a collected or selected works! Yesterday at 5:32am · Like · 1 David Faunt Le Roy True. Pathfinder doesn't carry most of his work. Yesterday at 5:35am · Like Write a comment... Einde O'Callaghan Yesterday at 3:37am On April 6th in history: In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath asserting independence of Scotland was signed by a number of Scottish noblemen. In 1528 Albrecht Dürer, German painter, died. In 1712 the New York Slave Revolt began near Broadway. In 1773 James Mill, Scottish historian, economist and philosopher, was born.... See More Like · · Share 5 people like this. 2 shares View 1 more comment Einde O'Callaghan Small Moses Hess archive: http://www.marxists.org/archive/hess/index.htm M.I.A. Library: Moses Hess www.marxists.org In History, in the life of the spirit, results mean nothing; it is only the carrying out of legacies that is effective. (Philosophy of the Act, 1843) Yesterday at 3:58am · Like · 2 Einde O'Callaghan Small Oscar Wilde archive: http://www.marxists.org/ref.../archive/wilde-oscar/index.htm The Oscar Wilde Internet Archive www.marxists.org Archive of Oscar Wilde Yesterday at 4:01am · Like · 2 David Faunt Le Roy I wonder what the Olympics of 1916 were like! Yesterday at 5:15am · Like Write a comment... Political Prince April 2 at 4:52pm My able thinkers and comarates, my question is about the idea of "revolution" does marx meant that the proletariat should use arms and armination to kill all the class of bourgeosie, or how did he explained it? Like · · Share 5 people like this. 2 shares View 36 more comments Reece Lawton Marx and Lenin applied a materialist analysis to their situation, and developed their Communism (opposed to the petit-bourgeois communism of Weitling) from the working class. The Communist Party and militants must organically arise from the class strug...See More April 5 at 12:00pm · Like · 2 Alois Blucher What I speak of is leaders organizing the workers, not a mythic band of whinners. Get it straight. April 5 at 12:03pm · Like · 1 Political Prince Ideas clashing themselves, reservuer of knowlede...... Thanks to all Yesterday at 3:11am · Like · 1 Write a comment... Einde O'Callaghan March 28 at 1:58am · Edited On March 28 in history: In 1584 Ivan the Terrible, first Russian Tsar, died. In 1760 Thomas Clarkson, British anti-slavery campaigner, was born. In 1854 France joined Britain in declaring war on Russia. In 1868 Maxim Gorky, Russian writer and revolutionary activist, was born.... See More Unlike · · Share You and 4 others like this. View 4 more comments Einde O'Callaghan Not according to the site I consulted - but I'll check again April 5 at 7:54pm · Like Alois Blucher Yeah, because maybe you misread something because Tsars=emperors (stems from Roman Caesar) and Ivan was the first Russian Tsar. April 5 at 7:55pm · Like Einde O'Callaghan You're right! The source I used seems to have got it wrong - I'll correct it! Yesterday at 2:13am · Like · 1 Write a comment... Jay Rothermel via Thomas Baughman April 5 at 9:31pm Bertolt Brecht speaks in the House Committee on Un-American Activities Bertolt Brecht 1947/48 bei einem Verhör im House Committee on Un-American Activities... youtube.com|By Rongart Like · · Share 4 people like this. Write a comment... Older Posts