I need more than just a husband and children! I want to be useful, and to bring enjoyment to all people, even those that I’ve never met. I want to go on living after my death!
Here it may be useful to note that the recent discussion about
universalism has blended three questions: the distinction between descriptive and analytic statements (both of which can simultaneously be true); the validity of statements reflecting competing interests (all of which may be equally valid and equally
self-interested); and critical rationality as the basis of scholarly
communication.
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Only were we to consider ourselves ignorant and without will could we believe useful an authority that showed us the right thought and purpose.
Marx at first supported Prussia in its attempt to defeat a Bonapartist France he regarded as an obstacle to the working class. He wrote: ‘If the Prussians are victorious, the centralization of the State power will be useful to the centralization of the German working class … On a world scale the ascendancy of the German proletariat over the French proletariat will at the same time constitute the ascendancy of our theory over Proudhon’s.’ Bakunin on the other hand thought Prussian militarism even more dangerous than Bonapartism.
According to Wilde, it is nonsense to talk about the dignity of manual labour: ‘Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.’ Most of it is degrading and should be done by machines, the helots of the future, so that all can enjoy cultivated leisure. Useful things can thus be made by machines, beautiful ones by the individual.