morals

[James Miller <jamiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

MORALITY

   Sally Ryan made some statement indicating a negative view
towards morals or morality. Rahul responded to Sally, and then
went on to say:

>Godena speaks for many people when he says, "Whatever advances the
>revolution is moral, whatever retards it is immoral," a view that would do
>very well for a nazi.

   Apparently when Godena speaks for "many people," he doesn't
speak for Rahul. But as far as this quotation goes, he speaks for me.
And I don't think I'm a "nazi."
   Here's what Leon Trotsky had to say:

   "Only that which prepares the complete and final overthrow of
imperialist bestiality is moral, and nothing else. The welfare of the
revolution--that is the supreme law!" (from _Their Morals and Ours_,
Merit (Pathfinder), New York, 1969, p. 49)

Jim Miller
Seattle


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