i am so incredibly used to defending good things by explaining how they help people and make their lives better because, yeah obviously that’s why good things are good and people with empathy would want that. i get that modern Western bourgeois “morality” is fucked, but if you tell people that they just think you are amoral or don’t think morals are good or just don’t care about them.

i’m so used to describing things and “good” and “bad” and the fact that Marxist theory just doesn’t seem to bother with that throws me for a loop. and then comes the question of “well REALLY what IS morality” and whether its objective (which i dont think it possibly could be? i’m a hard atheist) and its just kind of a mess in my brain as i’m trying to parse it all out.

edit: i get that the immorality of exploitation is apparent in Marxist analysis and should be to anybody, i’m more talking about how the argument isn’t framed as a moral one, because then you can get really annoying people in there trying to facts-and-logic their way out of it, if that makes sense

  • woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 天前

    Marxist critique is often inherent critique, which is not moral, but exposes the internal contradictions of the critiqued object (like capitalism’s). It’s strength is, that it doesn’t need strong assumptions. It works within the system it critiques. Capitalism’s own contradictions lead to crisis.

    But Marxist praxis is always moral, because praxis tries to build something. A system were the contradictions disappear. Why is that better than a system with constant crisis and widespread suffering? Why should humanity survive rather than perish in nuclear hellfire? Not for inherent reasons, but for moral reasons.

    The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

    If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

    Che Guevara

    The three most famous existentialist were all communists and they recognized how hard it was to reconcile the ultimate individualist philosophy with communism. If we are condemned to be free, we must not deny our freedom by delegating it to the rules of any moral system. Simon de Beauvoir was the only one who kind of succeeded to reconcile her existentialism with communism: by insisting freedom must be lived authentically. You can’t authentically live out your freedom by denying those of others.