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Being a responsible parent also means raising children who have a “work ethic” (Sherman, 2017), usually meaning that they work for pay even if they don’t have to.
Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth
Rachel Sherman
What dominated the Social Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century under the name of Marxism consisted of a miscellany of rather schematic conceptions: a crudely knitted materialism, a bourgeois belief in progress, and a few strongly simplified elements of Hegelian philosophy and modular pieces of Marxian terminology combined into simple formulas and explanations of the world. Particularly outstanding characteristics of this popular Marxism were an often rather crude economism (ideology and politics reduced to a direct and conscious transmission of economic interests), as well as a pronounced historical determinism that viewed the end of capitalism and the proletarian revolution as inevitable occurrences.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
Like Bailey, Kruks recognises that the use of privilege involves at least some degree of complicity with injustice, but she thinks such complicity is preferable to the ‘dangerous purism’ which motivates some privileged actors to be so concerned about their moral purity that they remain preoccupied with self-transformation at the expense of political action
(2005: 185).
Reflections on the Appropriate Use of Unjustly Conferred Privilege
Sally Matthews
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