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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
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From: Charles Brown
Date: April 7, 2014 at 7:37:01 AM EDT
To: charles brown
Subject: 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
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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
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Theses on Feuerbach
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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
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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
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Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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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?
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Dennis Etler I think that the concept has merit, but perhaps not in
its original formulation.
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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.
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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
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Karl Horner ernest mandel also uses the concept
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Enaa Doug
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Victor Serge: On the Borders of Victory and Defeat
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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...
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Paul Oviedo
17 hrs · Mexico City, Mexico
Gracias
Alguien dijo, "en cada hombre existe una revolución."
See Translation
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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?
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Asainar Asu http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/view.php?id=352459
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Subhajit Roy Lots of thanks.... I was searching for this book for long....
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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.
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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!
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David Faunt Le Roy True. Pathfinder doesn't carry most of his work.
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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....
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Einde O'Callaghan Small Moses Hess archive:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/hess/index.htm
M.I.A. Library: Moses Hess
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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)
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Einde O'Callaghan Small Oscar Wilde archive:
http://www.marxists.org/ref.../archive/wilde-oscar/index.htm
The Oscar Wilde Internet Archive
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Archive of Oscar Wilde
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David Faunt Le Roy I wonder what the Olympics of 1916 were like!
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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?
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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
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Alois Blucher What I speak of is leaders organizing the workers, not a
mythic band of whinners.
Get it straight.
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Political Prince Ideas clashing themselves, reservuer of
knowlede...... Thanks to all
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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....
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Einde O'Callaghan Not according to the site I consulted - but I'll check again
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Alois Blucher Yeah, because maybe you misread something because
Tsars=emperors (stems from Roman Caesar) and Ivan was the first
Russian Tsar.
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Einde O'Callaghan You're right! The source I used seems to have got it
wrong - I'll correct it!
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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
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