Messages, appeals and statements of Comintern (SH)

How do we Stalinist-Hoxhaists distance ourselves from the teachings of Kant?

We base ourselves on the teachings of the 5 classics of Marxism-Leninism.

Kant only interpreted morality. The important thing is to break, smash and overcome the rule of bourgeois morality in the socialist world revolution through socialist morality.

Kant refused to seek an earthly source for morality, i.e. real human interests and needs. According to Kant, moral concepts have their origin in abstract human reason, in which they are contained a priori, i.e. independent of any human interests. Determined by reason and independent of circumstances, for Kant the will becomes the "good will" or the ability to act in accordance with the general moral law. Kant calls this law the categorical imperative, which has no specific purpose and requires no empirical motive. It does not concern the content of the action or its consequences, but only "the form and the principle" from which the action follows. Kant saw the criterion of moral law not in the content but in the form of the will, not in what we want but in how we want.

According to Kant, the categorical imperative is based on "the highest absolute purpose".

"Act in such a way that you need humanity, both in your person and in the person of every other person, at all times as an end and never merely as a means."

This means separating the categorical imperative from life, from real human conditions and from the class struggle. It is impossible, for example, to expect the capitalist to see the worker as the end of production and not the means of exploitation.

Even today, the bourgeoisie likes to use Kant's formula and declares the recognition of man as an end, as the only value, to be the principle of bourgeois democracy. This is understandable, because Kant's formula does not go beyond the formal recognition of human rights, labour rights, etc. It reconciles the workers with the bourgeoisie. It reconciles the workers with exploitation and does not tolerate a revolutionary way out. Kant was aware that his "eternal moral law" could not be realised due to the imperfection of human beings, which is why he used religion as an artifice: Kant's moral doctrine as a commandment from God. Kant preached his moral doctrine from the divine altar of eternal truth, the God-given truth of exploitation and oppression.

"I had to abolish knowledge in order to make room for faith." (Kant: "Critique of Pure Reason")

Kant's morality is an exploitative morality that is kept hidden behind a human-looking mask until the 300th anniversary of his birth.