- 15 Nov 2009 05:32
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Abraham Lincoln, for reasons TIG already posted and to piss off the Ronulans.
This isn't correct. Marxism does not abstract oppression from social relations as a purely economic activity since economic relations constitute the infrastructure of society. Rather, it places economic relations at the root of oppression.
Also, to say that ideology(such as morality) could be eliminated from society is in itself an ideological statement, so there is nothing inherently unMarxist for TIG to have a moral opposition to slavery(as I myself do) as long as he doesn't try to incorporate into Marxism itself.
Dave wrote:Marxist liberation is not an issue of liberation of social oppression however, which is an ideological matter supposedly alien to Marxism. Marxism is about liberation from economic oppression, which is generally not the sort of thing dealt with in personalized, emotional terms aside from meeting the material needs necessary for existence (something American slavery mostly accomplished).
This isn't correct. Marxism does not abstract oppression from social relations as a purely economic activity since economic relations constitute the infrastructure of society. Rather, it places economic relations at the root of oppression.
Also, to say that ideology(such as morality) could be eliminated from society is in itself an ideological statement, so there is nothing inherently unMarxist for TIG to have a moral opposition to slavery(as I myself do) as long as he doesn't try to incorporate into Marxism itself.