Staying home

This article considers the motivational supports that might be thought necessary and also possible for socialism. It does this by way of a critique of G.A. Cohen's Why not socialism? The article begins by briefly summarizing the argument of that book, then goes on to identify a logical tension in Cohen's presentation of the socialist – at once egalitarian and communal – ethos of the camping trip (as assessed against a sixfold typology of person-to-person relations), and from this tension, as well as from independent evidence, it calls into question Cohen's hope that people might come to regard and treat each other on a society-wide scale in the same way they regard and treat their camping-trip companions. The postscript asks whether the camping trip ideal would be desirable for society even if it were feasible, and then suggests why it might not

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• Exploitation and Unjust Structures

  Open Access•Felicitas Holzer•Philosophy & Social Criticism•2025

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• El modelo de campamento socialista

  Open Access•Fernando Lizárraga, Fernando Alberto Lizárraga•Colombia Internacional•2021

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• The Contract of Mutual Indifference

  Norman Geras•The Contract of Mutual Indifference•1998

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• Why Not Socialism

  G A Cohen, Edward Broadbent•Democratic Equality•2001

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• Karl Marx's Theory of History

  Open Access•Gerald Allan Cohen•Karl Marx's Theory of History•1979

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