[Air-l] ethics and Marx

[J. J.]

The bickering about who is a crook and who isn’t is deeply rooted in Western 
tradition:

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all 
feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the 
motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left 
no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 
"cash payment". It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstasies of religious 
fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy 
water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into 
exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered 
freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In 
one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it 
has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored 
and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the 
lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage 
laborers.
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has 
reduced the family relation into a mere money relation.”

Marx, Communist Manifesto (1848)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm

Jarek


>From: elijah wright <elw at stderr.org>
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] Protection against unethical practices 
insearchengineoptimization?
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:41:12 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
>>>they're crooks, nuisances, and annoyances.  :)
>>>i assume that next you are going to suggest that spammers are 
just
>>>hardworking legitimate businessmen.
>>
>>You're labeling me without right to appeal. Just because I work in
>>search
>>engine optimisation doesn't mean I spam and/or support spamming.
>>Your mind
>>is obviously set and I'm not going to get involved in a ALL SEO =
>>spam
>>debate which would interest nobody on this list. Please email
>>privately if
>>you wish to do so.
>
>you're free to explain how (and why) SE optimization isn't a bit of
>crookery or algorithmic deception - and, in fact, i'd strongly
>prefer that you do so on the list rather than taking it to private
>email.  [which actually makes you look, rhetorically, as if you
>don't have a set of valid defenses, rather than making you look more
>'polite'.]
>
>a number of folks on the list might find your explanation useful and
>instructive.
>
>--elijah
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