Comrades and organizers would be more effective if we used a language of Non-Violent Communication rather than the language of bourgeois rights. Doing so would meet people’s needs more effectively in cases of interpersonal conflict, and would add nuance and clarity to our material analysis.
All in ethics
Deontology morally supports the development of meaningful freedoms, and Marxism aims to do just that in practice.
Not actually strange from the perspective of deontological ethics.
I recommend this book! A summary of how we might go about expressing and hearing our observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
I describe how we might understand our ‘identity’ in the normative sense, through Wilfred Sellars’ framework from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. I connect this to discussions of Kantian understandings of the sources of our obligations.
I discuss and explain how I understand 'motivated reasoning’, and ways to avoid it.
Three Points About Socialism-As-I-Understand-It
From a conversation with friends
Where to Put My Time and Effort? On Effective Altruism
I think it is morally acceptable for people to care more for those closer to them, but only if we also morally require that people also extend such aid to those structurally deprived and disadvantaged.