[Marxism] Moralism: (was: Re: a thought on bombay/mumbai attacks)

[Shamal A.]

so you need to read the old books to answer me whether you respecting human lives or not? what is this? is it a new religion?
 
--- On Thu, 11/27/08, David Picón Álvarez <david at miradoiro.com> wrote:

From: David Picón Álvarez <david at miradoiro.com>
Subject: [Marxism] Moralism: (was: Re: a thought on bombay/mumbai attacks)
To: "Shamal Ali" <shemalali at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 4:20 PM

From: "Shamal A." <shemalali at yahoo.com>
"I will forget about Aaron and his bizarre opinion, but it looks very odd
to 
me that Walter Lippmann wants to prove that killing innocent people does not 
serve progressive forces and that is why it is not acceptable, what if it 
was serving socialism? would Walter support such terrorist attacks?
this is my second day on this list... I'm really shocked by what i found 
here, is there any Marxist on this list want to condemn killing innocent 
people just because it is bad?"

This kind of formulation is often attacked as moralistic. Usually there's a

difference made between, say, Proudhon and Marx, in respect to the former's

moralistic position versus the latter's. However, I haven't been able
to 
find much of an explicity repudiation of moralism in Marx's writing after 
some cursory searching, except for a bit of the CM which seems to me to be a 
repudiation of bourgeois morality. Any ideas where in Marx is there thinking 
related to this issue? Poverty of philosophy, maybe?

--David.


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