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A brief, informative, and thought-provoking book that explores Marx’s moral standpoint, determinism, individual needs and rights, morality and the arts, and ethics in our “new world.”From the Introduction:It has often been thought that Marxists shouldn't dabble in ethics. This attitude apparently arrives from three sources. The first is the widespread anticommunist belief that Marxism, itself, is deeply immoral, even wicked. Secondly, and this is a rather old piece of thinking, it has been suggested that for materialists, and Marxists are materialists, any discussion of values present insurmountable difficulties because values are not material things and that any understanding of values requirest the aid of idealist philosophers. The third source is the venerable old value/fact dichotomy (not unrelated to the idealist premise noted above). Here it has been, and still is, proposed that Marxism confines its attention to material facts, mostly economic in nature, and does not and cannot venture into the realm of values and the making of value judgments. Interestingly, this last opinion is, and has been, held by Marxists and non-Marxists alike. To this end, I address the seeming parado

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Author

Willis H. Truitt

Publisher

International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780717807406

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, History, Government & Politics

Updated

2026-03-25