The moral reasoning for reading theory would be the same as all other learning, right? (If we ignore contributing to the dialectic, at least.)
Moral decisions are always made with incomplete knowledge, but the better understanding of those decisions and their consequences we have, the better will our choise be morally. Knowing, for example, about other people's cultural and religious practises will make it less likely that we accidentally offend them. Similarly, knowing theory makes any socialist movements you partake in less likely to fail, at least in the same way as past movements. And wrapping back to the dialectic of theory and praxis, if it fails in a new way, that is great too because it makes future theory better.
The moral reasoning for reading theory would be the same as all other learning, right? (If we ignore contributing to the dialectic, at least.)
Moral decisions are always made with incomplete knowledge, but the better understanding of those decisions and their consequences we have, the better will our choise be morally. Knowing, for example, about other people's cultural and religious practises will make it less likely that we accidentally offend them. Similarly, knowing theory makes any socialist movements you partake in less likely to fail, at least in the same way as past movements. And wrapping back to the dialectic of theory and praxis, if it fails in a new way, that is great too because it makes future theory better.