This is hilariously wrong. Literally all of Marx's writing is steeped in a language of justice and democracy. Marx just avoids explicitly making a moralism argument because that's his one of his problems with utopian socialists. If anyone wants a good recent work on the democratic theory in Capital Volume I, the book-club on the discord and !books@hexbear.net is doing Marx's Inferno this month. Marx is working in a deeply democratic tradition, a deeply moral one too, and those are exemplified and raised by the material backing he gives them in Capital and his other works. Capital is literally a work on the social hell that is capitalism, I mean jfc, this is just embarrassing for Robinson. And Marx constantly stressed that things were not inevitable, and warned against the determinism some later Marxists would engage in.
This is hilariously wrong. Literally all of Marx's writing is steeped in a language of justice and democracy. Marx just avoids explicitly making a moralism argument because that's his one of his problems with utopian socialists. If anyone wants a good recent work on the democratic theory in Capital Volume I, the book-club on the discord and !books@hexbear.net is doing Marx's Inferno this month. Marx is working in a deeply democratic tradition, a deeply moral one too, and those are exemplified and raised by the material backing he gives them in Capital and his other works. Capital is literally a work on the social hell that is capitalism, I mean jfc, this is just embarrassing for Robinson. And Marx constantly stressed that things were not inevitable, and warned against the determinism some later Marxists would engage in.