Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy

‎Contents......Page 9
‎Acknowledgements......Page 13
‎Introduction. The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx......Page 15
‎Notes......Page 25
‎Part 1. Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural Rights......Page 39
‎Chapter 1. Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of Liberalism......Page 41
‎Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War......Page 42
‎Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity......Page 45
‎Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law......Page 48
‎Ethics and Structure in Natural Law......Page 50
‎Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature......Page 56
‎Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature......Page 59
‎Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to Hobbes......Page 65
‎Notes......Page 70
‎Chapter 2. Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel......Page 86
‎Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel......Page 89
‎Hegel’s Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights......Page 94
‎Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights......Page 103
‎Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit......Page 109
‎Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State......Page 114
‎Marx’s Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza and Rousseau......Page 120
‎Notes......Page 125
‎Part 2. Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx......Page 141
‎Chapter 3. Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law......Page 143
‎Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights......Page 144
‎Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation......Page 152
‎Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation......Page 155
‎Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and Political Rights......Page 157
‎Marx’s Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights......Page 162
‎Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage......Page 164
‎Notes......Page 166
‎Chapter 4. Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom......Page 177
‎Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination......Page 179
‎Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty......Page 184
‎Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law......Page 189
‎Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law......Page 194
‎Notes......Page 198
‎Chapter 5. Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature and Society......Page 206
‎Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature......Page 209
‎Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness......Page 215
‎Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being......Page 218
‎Science as Objectivity and Alienation......Page 220
‎Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises......Page 224
‎Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology......Page 230
‎Notes......Page 234
‎Part 3. Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx......Page 247
‎Chapter 6. Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution, and Social Reciprocity......Page 249
‎Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program......Page 250
‎Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production......Page 253
‎Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption......Page 255
‎Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need......Page 261
‎Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism – Happiness without Meaning......Page 269
‎Notes......Page 277
‎Chapter 7. Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism......Page 286
‎Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871......Page 287
‎Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune......Page 292
‎Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy......Page 296
‎‘Declaration to the French People’ and the Social Programmes of the Commune......Page 299
‎Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery......Page 305
‎Notes......Page 310
‎Chapter 8. Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics and Political Economy......Page 323
‎Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value......Page 328
‎Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production......Page 336
‎Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital......Page 341
‎Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value......Page 352
‎Notes......Page 355
‎Bibliography......Page 377
‎Index......Page 400