From a moral nihilist point of view, morality is something adopted by societies for their benefits and does not exist in reality. Seeing how wildly different other places around the world define right or wrong seems to confirm this. The vikings had no moral hangups when they went abroad to pillage and raid, and in the modern era western imperialists do the same thing without a drop of remorse or shame. The atrocities committed by Japan in Korea in Asia were something not even seen as atrocities until they lost the war. Morality does not exist in reality and will always be made to fit the society of people it comes from, whether they are an oppressor or violent.

When thinking about what morality a modern Marxist-Leninist should adopt, it becomes clear that it should align with proletarian class interests. Shoplifting and fighting a protracted war is not something that will be seen as widely moral by bourgeois sympathizers, but we can decide that it’s moral because it is what benefits us. This seems sociopathic or like a blatant disregard for morality, but every society in history has done this. This is even done today by people who run corporations, work as police in America, or even work for Nestle. Even the owner of slaves rationalizes his brutality with some obscure attempt at defining his own morality. Knowing this, we see how morality is something that can either be used against us or that we can use to empower ourselves.

For a communist, anything that benefits the proletariat is right, and anything that acts against them is wrong. Any moral philosophy that doesn’t serve the proletariat can be damned!