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  1. Self-ownership, freedom, and equality
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Introduction : history, ethics and Marxism -- Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain : how patterns preserve liberty -- Justice, freedom, and market transactions -- Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality -- Are freedom and equality compatible? --... more

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    Introduction : history, ethics and Marxism -- Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain : how patterns preserve liberty -- Justice, freedom, and market transactions -- Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality -- Are freedom and equality compatible? -- Self-ownership, communism, and equality : against the Marxist technological fix -- Marxism and contemporary political philosophy, or, Why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals -- Marx and Locke on land and labour -- Exploitation in Marx : what makes it unjust? -- Self-ownership : delineating the concept -- Self-ownership : assessing the thesis -- The future of a disillusion. In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511521270; 0511521278; 9781461949114; 1461949114
    Series: Studies in Marxism and social theory
    Subjects: Égalité (Sociologie); Libertarianisme; Liberté; Capitalisme; Économie marxiste; Equality; Libertarianism; Liberty; Capitalism; Marxian economics; Capitalism; Marxian economics; Liberty; Libertarianism; Equality; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Human Rights; Capitalism; Equality; Libertarianism; Liberty; Marxian economics; Eigentum; Kapitalismus; Selbstbestimmung; Gleichheit; Wirtschaftstheorie; Marxismus; Vrijheid; Gelijkheid; Marxisme; Liberalisme; Liberdade politica; Capitalismo; Marxismo; Economia; Teoria politica
    Scope: Online Ressource (x, 277 pages), illustrations.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-271) and indexes. - Description based on print version record

    Introduction : history, ethics and MarxismRobert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain : how patterns preserve liberty -- Justice, freedom, and market transactions -- Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality -- Are freedom and equality compatible? -- Self-ownership, communism, and equality : against the Marxist technological fix -- Marxism and contemporary political philosophy, or, Why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals -- Marx and Locke on land and labour -- Exploitation in Marx : what makes it unjust? -- Self-ownership : delineating the concept -- Self-ownership : assessing the thesis -- The future of a disillusion.