Introduction

Marx, ethics and ethical Marxism

pp. 1-9

in: Lawrence Wilde, Ethical Marxism and its radical critics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Abstrakt

Least of all must a philosophy be accepted as a philosophy by virtue of an authority or of good faith, be the authority even that of a people and the faith that of centuries. The proof can be provided only by expounding its essence (Karl Marx).¹