Note 1002 — Chapter III · : MARXISM

Labriola, op. cit. Vandervelde (L’Idéalisme Marxiste, in La Revue socialiste, February 1904) says that “upon final analysis it will be found that Marx’s whole argument rests upon a moral basis, which is that justice requires that every man should get all that he produces.”

M. Landry, in a book of lectures delivered by different authors entitled Études sur la Philosophie morale au XIXe Siècle (p. 164), is of an entirely different opinion. He thinks that Marx’s moral basis is simply potentiality. In other words, everything that has been created in the ordinary course of economic development is moral, everything that has been destroyed is immoral.