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Abstract
re-visiting today’s Marxian criticism of utilitarianism matters for at least two reasons: because the greatest philosophical and political debate in recent years has been launched precisely against utilitarianism since the publication of the Theory of Justice by John Rawls, and because if it is possible to discern an ethics in Marx’s work, it can be inferred in contrast to traditional utilitarianism. In this article we will recall Marxian (and engelming) criticism of the fundamentals and founders of utilitarianism. We will identify three moments at which utilitarianism: (a) it is seen as a progressive doctrine compared to feudal waste and idealist mistifications (and even as a precursor of socialism); (b) is merely condoned and criticised from the point of view of proletarisation in promotions; and (c) it is overtaken towards a ‘Aristotélica’ vision of good life in communism.