Marxism and ethics today

Elizabeth Rapaport

pp. 113-130

in: Arthur Caplan, Bruce Jennings (eds), Darwin, Marx and Freud, Berlin, Springer, 1984

Abstract

Michael Harrington has rescued Marxism from some of the most entrenched distortions perpetrated by Marx's critics and by Marxists from whom those critics learned the Marxism they reject. Harrington and I are in agreement on a number of broad but crucial questions about the nature of Marxism and of a Marxist approach to ethics today. My Marx too is a moralist, a democratic humanist, and a subtle social analyst rather than a doctrinaire economic determinist. I will follow Harrington's lead in identifying myself and my Marxism politically in order to clarify our different interpretations of Marx.

Cited authors

Marx Karl

Harrington Michael