Saying Marxism isn't about morality or excludes morality
isn't meant to say Marxists are immoral or amoral. It's sort like,
computer science doesn't talk about morality, but that doesn't make
computer science immoral, or software developers amoral. They're just
separate topics.
Marxism is meant to treat socioeconomic development as a material
science. Biology and chemistry can inform doctors on how to make
medicine and what medicine to prescribe people. But biology and
chemistry themselves do not prescribe anything. Prescriptions require
some sort of stated end goal, which is subjective.
Stalin says something similar in Economic Problems of Socialism in the
USSR, where he points out that political economy is the study of
objective laws of social development which are outside of the control of
the government, that the government's policies are not equivalent to
political economy as a science but are prescriptions informed by the
science.
This is what Marx had to say on the subject.
Communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to
egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in
its sentimental or in its highflown ideological form; they rather
demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The
Communists do not preach morality at all.
They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not
be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that
egoism, just as much selflessness, is in definite circumstances a
necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals. Hence, the
Communists by no means want to do away with the "private individual" for
the sake of the "general", selfless man. That is a statement of the
imagination.
—Marx, The German Ideology
In some sense, you can argue there is a Marxist morality, but not from
the perspective of subjective prescriptions, but merely an attempt to
explain an objective origin to already existing morality. Such as, the
origin of liberal viewpoints, which are heavily steeped in morality,
clearly emanate from the capitalist mode of production. One could also
argue a socialist society would produce a different kind of morality,
but this would not be a prescription but would have to be demonstrated
with evidence.
I don't think there is any reason to try and force morality or ethics
into Marxism. Marxism does not need to be some all-encompassing
worldview. It's fine to get your beliefs and views from other sources. I
am influenced by many writers, many of whom are not Marxist. I don't
get all my ideas from one source, I don't feel a need to somehow make
Marxism all-encompassing.
aimixin talks about morality and Marxism:
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