A paradox in Marx's thought (and for Marxism in general) is that while Marx's writings abound in moral Judgments (i.e., in commendations, condemnations, prescriptions, etc., made on the basis of a concern for human ill and well-being), they contain, at the same time, explicit repudiations of morality. A major charge leveled against morality in the writings of Marx and other Marxists, a charge to which, perhaps, all of the other charges against morality can be reduced, is that morality is ideology or, to say the same thing slightly differently, that morality is ideological.