I’ve heard it many times from liberals who either mean the revolution would be more violent than our current system (it wouldn’t be), or suggesting that communists claim that we will achieve utopia if we’re just allowed to commit much brutality in the mean time (obviously false). This phrase annoys me so much, not just as a utilitarian, but also as someone who understands the meaning of words, as they are either suggesting that (in the moralistic sense) literally nothing is worth doing, ever, or that morality shouldn’t matter because everything is immoral anyway.

  • Anna ☭🏳️‍⚧️
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    211 year ago

    ‘the ends never justify the means’, we would’ve never had capitalism. The bourgeoisie had a revolution in France. It was also particularly violent. Does that mean that the means for equality, liberty and fraternity do not justify the liberation of the bourgeoisie?