Whenever the subject of 'morality' is brought up on revleft, it is met with scorn by most, and not without good cause. However, to say that we communists do not have a morality ourselves would be incorrect. We all believe in 'right' and 'wrong' or 'good' and 'bad'. I, for example, see superstition and capitalism as 'morally bad' for humans. The question, then, is how do we arrive at these conclusions?

Most 'morality' is based on a particular type of superstition: Muslims have a 'Muslim morality'; Christians have a 'Christian morality'; etc. etc. We can certainly rule this out.

Rather, I have found that most of us here on the left have what can be termed a materialist morality. That is, we see things as 'good' or 'bad' based on their material effects upon society. Capitalism, superstition, etc. are obviously materially harmful to humans all over the earth. Now, what appears simple at first gets quite tricky. We have to map this materialist morality in relation to our strong belief in social libertarianism.

What this means is that we usually find things that we do freely and which have low or minimal harmful material effects upon society as 'good'. Further, we find things which we do freely but have highly harmful material effects upon society as 'bad'. The same can be said of the reverse: we find 'bad' those things which have highly beneficial material effects upon society, but are forced on people. For example, though a revolution and the construction of a communist society will involve killing some reactionaries, the highly beneficial material effects to the rest of society outweigh this display of force.

So that's an attempt to map out a 'materialist morality'. Waddaya think?