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Here I examine the question: what practical guidance can Marxism provide for resolving what are commonly thought of as concrete moral problems? This cautious formulation does not assume that Marxism is or includes a moral theory or is even compatible with a moral point of view. It leaves open the possibility that, as some defenders of Marx claim, Marx believed that morality is no more than an ideological smokescreen and that, properly speaking, there are no moral problems, only political ones.
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Buchanan, A. (1988). Marxism and Moral Judgment. In: Brody, B.A. (eds) Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2715-5_9
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