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In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings. What is distinctive about Marx's theory is that he rejects the views of justice in liberalism and reform socialism based on legal rights and fair distribution by balancing ancient Greek philosophy with nineteenth-century political economy. Each chapter in the book represents a different aspect of social justice.

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Author:   George E. McCarthy
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   147
ISBN:  

9781608460113

ISBN 10:   1608460118
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural Rights 1 Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of Liberalism  Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War  Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity  Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law  Ethics and Structure in Natural Law  Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature  Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature  Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to Hobbes 2 Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel  Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel  Hegel’s Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights  Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights  Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit  Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State  Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza and Rousseau Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx 3 Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law  Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights  Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation  Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation  Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and Political Rights  Marx’s Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights  Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage 4 Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom  Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination  Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty  Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law  Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law 5 Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature and Society  Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature  Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness  Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being  Science as Objectivity and Alienation  Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises  Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx 6 Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution, and Social Reciprocity  Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program  Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production  Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption  Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need  Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism – Happiness without Meaning 7 Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism  Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871  Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune  Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy  ‘Declaration to the French People’ and the Social Programmes of the Commune  Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery 8 Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics and Political Economy  Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value  Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production  Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital  Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value Bibliography Index

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George E. McCarthy is Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) in philosophy from Boston College and an M.A. and Ph.D. (1979) in sociology from the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. He has been a research fellow at the universities of Frankfurt/Main, Munich, and Kassel, Germany. He is the author of a number of works, includingMarx and the Ancients: Classical Ethics, Social Justice, and Nineteenth-Century Political Economy(Rowman & Littlefield, 1990) andClassical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece(SUNY Press, 2002).

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