Gregory C Slack
Biographic Data
| ID | 4590448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory C Slack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory C |
| FAMILY NAME | Slack |
| SIGNATURE | SLACK G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4448-089X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Karl Marx is back. No less than three academic monographs by philosophers treating Marx's ethical, social, and political thought were published by top presses in 2024 alone (cf. Edwards and Leiter 2024; Leipold 2024; Wills 2024). This is startling evidence of a renewed interest by philosophers in what Marx has to offer to ethics and social philosophy. Although an earlier flowering of interest by analytic philosophers—arguably beginning some 50 ye…
Did Marx Defend Black Slavery? On Jamaica and Labour in a Black Skin
Over the past 40 years a tradition of Marx interpretation has built up around a single passage concerning Black slavery in an 1853 letter from Marx to Engels, in order to demonstrate that Marx’s support for emancipation was conditional on the level of ‘civilisation’ attained by Black slaves. I will argue that this interpretation, which attempts to prove Marx’s racist defence of slavery, is overdetermined by an inattention to historical context an…
Charles W. Mills: Black Radical Liberalism or Black Marxism?
Here I both celebrate and critique the legacy of Charles W. Mills. I begin by offering some reflections on the trajectory of Mills’s career and intellectual development, focusing on his move from Marxist philosophy to the philosophy of race. I then attempt to undermine an argument in Mills’s final book, for why those interested in emancipation should choose liberalism over Marxism. By contrasting Mills with the late Italian Marxist philosopher of…
Marx’s Argument for the Labor Theory of Value
In a Times Literary Supplement review of some recent literature on Marx and Marxism for a general readership, Jonathan Wolff claimed that Marx’s solution to the so-called “transformation problem” is “half-baked.” The aim of this paper is to challenge this complacent dismissal of some of Marx’s central economic ideas. In the process, I want to show that although the issues here are subtle and complex, Marx’s ideas retain a great deal of intuitive …
From Class to Race and Back Again: A Critique of Charles Mills’ Black Radical Liberalism
Charles Mills’ philosophical position has undergone a number of subtle shifts over the past 30 years. Nevertheless, there has been a relative consistency in his thought over the past two decades, at least since The Racial Contract of 1997. That consistency consists in his turn towards social contract theory and its liberal values and away from Marxism with its focus on class and political economy. Mills notes that this turn does not constitute a …
Charles W. Mills: Black Radical Liberalism or Black Marxism?
Here I both celebrate and critique the legacy of Charles W. Mills. I begin by offering some reflections on the trajectory of Mills’s career and intellectual development, focusing on his move from Marxist philosophy to the philosophy of race. I then attempt to undermine an argument in Mills’s final book, for why those interested in emancipation should choose liberalism over Marxism. By contrasting Mills with the late Italian Marxist philosopher of…
Did Marx Defend Black Slavery? On Jamaica and Labour in a Black Skin
Over the past 40 years a tradition of Marx interpretation has built up around a single passage concerning Black slavery in an 1853 letter from Marx to Engels, in order to demonstrate that Marx’s support for emancipation was conditional on the level of ‘civilisation’ attained by Black slaves. I will argue that this interpretation, which attempts to prove Marx’s racist defence of slavery, is overdetermined by an inattention to historical context an…
From Class to Race and Back Again: A Critique of Charles Mills’ Black Radical Liberalism
Charles Mills’ philosophical position has undergone a number of subtle shifts over the past 30 years. Nevertheless, there has been a relative consistency in his thought over the past two decades, at least since The Racial Contract of 1997. That consistency consists in his turn towards social contract theory and its liberal values and away from Marxism with its focus on class and political economy. Mills notes that this turn does not constitute a …
Marx’s Argument for the Labor Theory of Value
In a Times Literary Supplement review of some recent literature on Marx and Marxism for a general readership, Jonathan Wolff claimed that Marx’s solution to the so-called “transformation problem” is “half-baked.” The aim of this paper is to challenge this complacent dismissal of some of Marx’s central economic ideas. In the process, I want to show that although the issues here are subtle and complex, Marx’s ideas retain a great deal of intuitive …
Charles W. Mills: Black Radical Liberalism or Black Marxism?
Here I both celebrate and critique the legacy of Charles W. Mills. I begin by offering some reflections on the trajectory of Mills’s career and intellectual development, focusing on his move from Marxist philosophy to the philosophy of race. I then attempt to undermine an argument in Mills’s final book, for why those interested in emancipation should choose liberalism over Marxism. By contrasting Mills with the late Italian Marxist philosopher of…
Did Marx Defend Black Slavery? On Jamaica and Labour in a Black Skin
Over the past 40 years a tradition of Marx interpretation has built up around a single passage concerning Black slavery in an 1853 letter from Marx to Engels, in order to demonstrate that Marx’s support for emancipation was conditional on the level of ‘civilisation’ attained by Black slaves. I will argue that this interpretation, which attempts to prove Marx’s racist defence of slavery, is overdetermined by an inattention to historical context an…
Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Karl Marx is back. No less than three academic monographs by philosophers treating Marx's ethical, social, and political thought were published by top presses in 2024 alone (cf. Edwards and Leiter 2024; Leipold 2024; Wills 2024). This is startling evidence of a renewed interest by philosophers in what Marx has to offer to ethics and social philosophy. Although an earlier flowering of interest by analytic philosophers—arguably beginning some 50 ye…
Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical materialism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Marxist philosophy (3 works)