Kant After Marx

Love, Susan M.

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“…I sketch here a proposal for how social justice reforms can actualize the ideal of civic equality to secure universal civil independence. I leave aside the obvious issue that a capitalist free market compels workers to sell their labour power, such that all wage labourers are subject to structural domination that gives an elite unbounded wealth and political power (Hasan 2018;Love 2017;Gilabert 2017: 566-7). I focus more narrowly on what kind of state-led measures can alleviate exploitation, given the existence of some version of a capitalist free market, property rights and wage-labour contracts.…”

Section: The Ideal Of Civic Equality and The Critique Of Dependent La...mentioning

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The Promise and Limit of Kant’s Theory of Justice: On Race, Gender and the Structural Domination of Labourers

Basevich

2022

Kantian rev.

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This article applies Charles W. Mills’ notion of the domination contract to develop a Kantian theory of justice. The concept of domination underlying the domination contract is best understood as structural domination, which unjustifiably authorizes institutions and labour practices to weaken vulnerable groups’ public standing as free, equal and independent citizens. Though Kant’s theory of justice captures why structural domination of any kind contradicts the requirements of justice, it neglects to condemn exploitive gender- and race-based labour relations. Because the ideal of civic equality must position all persons as co-legislators of the terms of political rule, the state must dismantle exploitive race- and gender-based labour relations for all persons to command political power as civic equals.

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Section: The Ideal Of Civic Equality and The Critique Of Dependent La...mentioning

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The Promise and Limit of Kant’s Theory of Justice: On Race, Gender and the Structural Domination of Labourers

Basevich

2022

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Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality

McKean

2019

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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Marx's Ethical Vision

Wills

2024

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“The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. And yet Marx issued both trenchant critiques of “bourgeois” morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism’s “vampire-like” destruction. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding human beings’ ability to value one another for who they are, not how much their lives could be traded away for. He expressed apparently ethical views about human nature, the conditions necessary for human flourishing, and the desirability of bringing such conditions about—views that are interwoven throughout his life’s work, from his youthful philosophical poetry to his unfinished masterpiece, Capital. Renewed attention to Marx’s distinctively “dialectical” and historical materialist approach to conflict and change makes sense of this apparent tension in his thought. Following Marx, Marx’s Ethical Vision centers labor—human beings satisfying their needs through conscious, purpose-driven, and transformative interaction with the material world—as the essential human activity. Working people’s struggles reveal capitalism’s worst ravages while pointing to a better future and embodying the only way there: rational transformation of their relationships to themselves, to one another, and to the natural world, so that the human condition emerges not as something they must bear but as something they joyfully create. Rather than “preach morality,” the key task for moral philosophy is to theorize in the light that workers’ struggles for freedom shine on capitalism—an existential threat to humanity and the defining ethical problem of our time.

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Kant After Marx

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

The Promise and Limit of Kant’s Theory of Justice: On Race, Gender and the Structural Domination of Labourers

The Promise and Limit of Kant’s Theory of Justice: On Race, Gender and the Structural Domination of Labourers

Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality

Marx's Ethical Vision

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