As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism

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John Wiley & Sons, May 8, 2012 - Philosophy - 256 pages
Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures.

  • Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and political theory
  • Distills a new concept of justice that recognizes the iniquities of capitalism
  • Synthesis of elements of Marxism and Liberalism will interest readers in both camps
  • Direct and jargon-free style opens these complex ideas to a wide readership
 

Contents

Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism
1
Marx and Rawls and Justice
26
The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a Social
67
The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle
122
The MarxianLiberal Original Position
158
Capitalism for Marxists
190
Marxs Liberalism Rawlss Labor Theory
210
Index
221
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Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. A central figure in numerous political and philosophical debates in America, including those on abortion and criminal justice, he is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Death Penalty: For and Against (with Louis Pojman, 1998), Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life (1999), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 10th edn. (with Paul Leighton, forthcoming), and more than a hundred articles on philosophy and criminal justice.

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