Engels (this part was reviewed by Marx) also wrote this in the section on socialism:
"The growing perception that existing social institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has become unreason, and right wrong, is only proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which the social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in keeping. From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have been brought to light must also be present, in a more or less developed condition, within the changed modes of production themselves. These means are not to be invented, spun out of the head, but discovered with the aid of the head in the existing material facts of production." Moral disgust against the social order is part and parcel of socialism. It is a beginning, but life is such that... toujours recommence. Socialism = the movement of conscious appropriation of the production of human history by the individuals. I think Charles is correct in suggesting that pushing back against bourgeois morality is a necessary step in the process of building a new morality. The moral disgust against outdated social structures is the beginning of the end of those social structures. It is not sufficient, but it is necessary. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
