The Possibility of a Marxian Theory of Justice

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ID23212899
AuthorsJeffrey Reiman (American University, corresponding author), Jeffrey H Reiman
Year1981
Volume7
Pages307-322
Publication date1981-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0229-7051 • E-ISSN: 2633-0490
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00455091.1981.10715776
OpenAlexW2530451615
LanguageEN
Citations received5

I have argued elsewhere1 that Rawl's method (i.e., the original position and so forth, as distinct from the principles that Rawls derives by using the method) provides us with the proper way to determine whether the structure of any society is exploitative. The argument trimmed to the bare bones is this. Since exploitation is the suppression of some peoples’ interests for the benefit of others, an argument that a set of social relations would be unanimously agreed to by rational individuals concerned to secure maximum opportunity to control their lives and possessed of correct knowledge of the nature of social reality and free of interests or attitudes deriving from the society they occupy or the position they occupy in it, is an argument that those social relations are not exploitative. If we take ideology to be false beliefs or interests or attitudes arising from society which lead people to think that their society is rational for all to accept when it would not be rational in the absence of such beliefs or interests or attitudes, then we can see that Rawls has constructed a method for arguing around ideology.

Argument (complex analysis) · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Law and economics · Original position · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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