I found myself in a discussion about historical materialism where I ended up saying something along the lines of “scientific progress helps us to build more ethical societies because it enables us to see through the injustices of race, religion, and capitalism.” I was kind of firing from the hip, but I couldn’t think of anything better to say. My conversation partner asked me if I thought you could do a scientific experiment or analysis on a moral problem, and I was frankly stumped.
I know we aren’t supposed to think in moral categories, but I sense every one of us thinks, and correct me if I’m wrong, that capitalism is wrong and communism is right morally speaking. With that in mind, as contradictions are resolved per historical materialism and as different peoples have socialist revolutions within their societies, do these societies become more moral in any sense?
I’m not opposed to morality and not as hardline against it as many other communists are.
I think using moral arguments in discussion is a very slippery slope that can backfire in many ways, and its extremely hard to teach selfish people morality.
I’m not interested in having a discussion about morality being subjective or being the same as the worldview of the capitalist ruling class or a human construct, because all of those are true.
Obviously communism is a more efficient system that leads to better outcomes and an astronomically higher quality of life than capitalism, but to reject morality as a whole I find to be ridiculous.
I think its immoral that in capitalism, a relative handful of know-it all selfish crackers and pricks control most of the economic activity and resources on the planet, and that what’s good for the working class and vast majority of the human population is good for everyone as a whole.