On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > "The commodity form of goods is hostile to needs" This is history, not > ethics. >
Are you sure? It seems to me that the ethics are very much there in the above statement, just implicit rather than explicit. After all it is surely an ethical principle to privilege "needs" over "commodities". Once you move beyond the abstract, you also have to confront the question of whose "needs" are we talking about. At that point you will have to bring in notions of egalitarianism and democracy which of course are ethical concepts. The link you provided critiques a certain kind of moral consciousness - and a very hypocritical one too. It is basically a strawman. -raghu.
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