Justice and Capitalist Production
Marx and Bourgeois Ideology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23139255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Young (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421-455 |
| Publication date | 1978-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-5091 • E-ISSN: 1911-0820 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00455091.1978.10717064 |
| OpenAlex | W1489049718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
Is capitalist production unjust? It is easy to think, upon first reading Marx, that he answers this question in the affirmative. And I shall argue that this naive reading is correct. This needs to be argued, however, for a more careful scrutiny of Marx's writings reveals passages in which he seems to call capitalist production just or fair. Relying upon these passages, Robert Tucker and Allen W. Wood have urged that, in Wood's words, it is simply not the case that Marx's condemnation of capitalism rests on some conception of justice (whether explicit or implicit), and those who attempt to reconstruct a “Marxian idea of justice” from Marx's manifold charges against capitalism are at best only translating Marx's critique of capitalism, or some aspect of it, into what Marx himself would have consistently regarded as a false, ideological, or “mystified” form. What Marx regarded as false and mystified, however, is not the practice of assessing social institutions as just or unjust, but rather the picture of those institutions, and especially of capitalist production, to be found in bourgeois ideology.
Bourgeoisie · Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Scrutiny · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |