History, Human Rights and the Left
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4482157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alastair Davidson (La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-116 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513609353709 |
| OpenAlex | W2018143758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Marxists should reconsider their usual attitude to universal human rights. On the Jewish Question did not reject the entire French Declaration of 1791. In 1843 Marx and Engels were close to Babouvism, the continuation of French rights. Nor was their view that the 1791 Declaration must be completed by economic and social rights; rather, their criticism concerned the reduction of universal rights to citizen rights because it left the state the final arbiter of justice, denying the 'voice from below'. The source of human rights cannot be the state or its hegemonic rule of law. The article concludes that a politics of human rights would return justice to individuals and create a counter-hegemony
Declaration · Fundamental rights · Hegemony · Human rights · International human rights law · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Sociology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |