
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1
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The Ideology of Utilitarianism
In developing the ideology doctrine, marks exclusively aims at economics and the social philosophy of utilitarianism. His only intention was to destroy the reputation of economic teachings which he was unable to refute by means of logic and ratiocination. He gave to his doctrine the form of a universal law valid for the whole historical age of social classes. The service which bourgeois economics rendered to the bourgeoisie was, in mark's eyes, twofold. It provided a rational and moral justification for capitalist exploitation.
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