ABSTRACT
The more clear-sighted thinkers of the world have marked the existing conformity between capitalistic morality and the exclusive egoism of the proprietary classes, and noted the existence of the twofold moral code, allowing pleasure and license to the rich and counselling submission and obedience to the workers. Many indeed have remarked the aristocratic character of morality, and some have courageously denounced it. Ultimate ethics are based upon the egoism of the individual, while capitalistic morality is inspired exclusively by the egoism of the dominant class. The morality between Spartans and Helots, between planters and negroes, between princes and subjects, between nobles and roturiers, between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests and feelings.’ The essential contradiction between the free morals of individual egoism prevailing in the final economy, and the coercive morality of disciplined and perverted egoism that authors find in the capitalistic economy.
