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Originally posted by HunkaHunka
reply to post by jdub297
Jdub how can you question whether or not Marxism has morality at all when the communist manifesto which was written was based on the mechanization of humanity which they saw as a result of industrialization?
Whether you agree with their assertion or not, the fact is that anyone with the slightest bit of understanding of Marx knows that his ideas were completely based on what he, Engles, and many others felt to be a morality superior to the mechanization of society.
As a matter of fact, Marx viewed the the world structure of his time in the EXACT same way as most of the people on ATS view the NWO.
Ironic ain't it?
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by HunkaHunka
Switching a single word, "relative" to "related", does not change the nature of the beast.
It IS moral relativism.
And something YOU don't want to hear.
nenothtu out
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by HunkaHunka
"Morality" is an absolute. It's not dependent on what a "group" wants, it exists entirely outside the "group", or "collective", and independent thereof. It's "right", and "wrong" and not subject to legislation.
Your kind of morality would condone the erasure of an individual simply because the "group" wanted them to go away, not necessarily because of anything they had done to injure the "group".
Of course that would be relative to the group, and destructive of the individual, and wouldn't REALLY help the group at all.
It will only change the group into an amoral mass of people.
Like Marx's philosophy does.
edit to add: Voodoo Sciences like 'sociology' didn't create that word. The development of the english language did. Sociology reduces a man to nothing more than an animal. An AMORAL animal.
[edit on 2009/6/2 by nenothtu]
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
It's obvious then that you are an absolutist who does not understand differences in culture.
Originally posted by really
Morality is NOT an absolute.
The End.
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
It's obvious then that you are an absolutist who does not understand differences in culture.
How so?
How many "foreigners" have YOU help lift up out of oppression lately?
How many "foreign" cultures have YOU lived in lately? A trip to the local Mexican restaraunt doesn't count. Unless it was in Mexico. Ditto for Chinese, or Middle Eastern cuisine.
My philosophies aren't based on a textbook and a comfortable armchair.
nenothtu out