Marxism and Fact/Value Confusion
It's a huge mistake to think historical materialism entails anything whatsoever about meta-ethics.
Does Marx’s materialism entail moral nihilism?
I’ve obviously heard this claim from right-wingers who want to portray commies as demonic. Strangely, though, a certain kind of super-Marxist agrees with the Right’s premise. For example, I’ve often run into the suggestion that making any sort of explicitly moral argument against capitalism means rejecting m…