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  • "Marx’s Ethical Vision"

    “Marx’s Ethical Vision”: A conversation with Vanessa Wills (Keywords: morality; alienation; revolution; freedom; humanism )

    Originally published: The Philosopher on 2026 by Vanessa Wills and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (more by The Philosopher) (Posted Jan 30, 2026)

    Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (OT): There is a deep and abiding ethical impulse under the political commitments that Marxism is associated with: socialism, communism and the fight against capitalism. When you ask people who are swimming in one of those seas what they’re up to and why, they give what sounds to me—as an analytically trained moral philosopher—like moral explanations: they think there’s something wrong with capitalism, something inappropriate about the way the system treats people.

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  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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