Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation

by Bill Martin

Overview

This book aims to reinvigorate the Marxist project and the role it might play in illuminating the way beyond capitalism. Though political economy and scientific investigation are needed for pure Marxism, Martin’s argument is that the extent to which these elements are needed cannot be determined within the conversations of political economy and other investigations into causal mechanisms. What has not been done, and what this book does, is to argue for the possibility of a rethought Marxism that takes ethics as its core, displacing political economy and "scientific" investigation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812696288
Publisher:	Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/28/2008
Series:	Creative Marxism , #1
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Bill Martin is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a musician, cyclist, and chess enthusiast whose numerous previous books include The Radical Project: Sartrean Investigations (2001), Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork (2002), and he is co-author of Marxism and the Call of the Future (2005).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: "Ethical": Not Simply One Adjective among Others     1
Marxism and the Language of Good and Evil, or, Theodicy and the Iron Law of Wages     31
Unforgivable Napalm: Imperialism is the Ethical Question of Our Time     77
Sites, Ramifications: Animals, Places, Mao     183
The "Animal" Question     195
Vegetarianism and the Limits of Philosophy     195
Carnivorism is a System     229
Agriculture and the Question of Place (An Appreciation of Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson in the Context of Marxism)     269
Maoism and Beyond: The Next Synthesis     303
Conclusion: Ongoingness: The Ethics of Liberation and the Liberation of the Ethical     389
Bibliography     451
Index     463