The Dialectic of Morality and the Morality of the Dialectic

In: Telos, Band 33, S. 85-92

Abstract

Originally published in Italian in Critica Marxista (1964, Jan-Feb, 113-130). A reconsideration of Marxist ethics: the problem of morality is presented as the overcoming of reified praxis through the revolutionary praxis expressed in the morality of the dialectic. The contradictions between the individual & society, & between internality & externality are reviewed. The antinomy between moralism & utilitarian realism is analyzed. The following aspects of the dialectic as a destructive & totalizing process are emphasized: (1) the dialectic is the destruction of pseudo-concreteness, (2) it unmasks contradictions, & (3) it expresses the movement of human praxis. Modified HA.