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Single Idea 21998

[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention ]

Full Idea

Morality, law and religion are bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

Gist of Idea

Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion

Source

K Marx / F Engels (The Communist Manifesto [1848], p.230), quoted by Peter Singer - Marx 9

Book Ref

Singer,Peter: 'Marx' [OUP 1996], p.62


A Reaction

The obvious question is whether this creation of values is conscious or unconscious. Personally I believe in conspiracies. Some cynical conversations go on behind the scenes, of which historians will never hear.