Marx and Social Justice : Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy.
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- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.147 .
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The Ethical Archaeology of Justice in Marx -- Notes -- Part 1. Dialectic between the Ancients and the Moderns: Natural Law and Natural Rights -- Chapter 1. Natural Law and Natural Rights in Locke: Indifference and Incoherence of Liberalism -- Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature and War -- Richard Hooker and the Laws of Nature and Ecclesiastical Polity -- Locke on Natural Rights and Natural Law -- Ethics and Structure in Natural Law -- Natural Law Limits to Natural Rights in the Original State of Nature -- Eclipse of Natural Law and Social Justice in the Second State of Nature -- Irrelevance of Natural Law, Incoherence of Liberalism, and the Return to Hobbes -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Justice Beyond Liberalism: Natural Law and the Ethical Community in Hegel -- Early Theological Writings and Dreams of Classical Antiquity in Hegel -- Hegel's Natural Law and Critique of Liberalism and Natural Rights -- Social Ethics and Integration of Natural Law and Natural Rights -- Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Law, and the State as Objective Spirit -- Formation of the Ethical Life in the Family, Civil Society, and the State -- Marx's Critique of Hegel and the Revival of Classical Democracy in Spinoza and Rousseau -- Notes -- Part 2. Ethics, Virtue, and Natural Law in Marx -- Chapter 3. Civil and Legal Justice: Integrating Natural Rights and Natural Law -- Religious Prejudice, Judaism, and Civil Rights -- Natural Rights as Ideology and Alienation -- Transition of Politics from Pure Ideology to Human Rights and Emancipation -- Critique of Liberal Democracy and Contradictions between Economic and Political Rights -- Marx's Theory of Emancipation and Human Rights -- Natural Rights of Free Press and Universal Suffrage -- Notes. Chapter 4. Workplace Justice: Ethics, Virtue, and Human Freedom -- Alienation and the Virtue of Work and Self-Determination -- Work as Productive Life and Creative Beauty -- Ethics, Human Needs, and Natural Law -- Virtue and Late Medieval Thomistic Natural Law -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Ecological Justice: Historical Materialism and the Dialectic of Nature and Society -- Alienation of Production, Labour, and Nature -- Dialectic of Nature and the Alienation of Consciousness -- Natural Science as the Objectification and Social Praxis of Species Being -- Science as Objectivity and Alienation -- Social Metabolism, Contradictions, and Ecological Crises -- Social Justice and the Natural Laws of Ethics and Ecology -- Notes -- Part 3. Structures of Democracy, Economy, and Social Justice in Marx -- Chapter 6. Distributive Justice: Justice of Consumption, Economic Redistribution, and Social Reciprocity -- Labour, Nature, and Society in the Gotha Program -- Equality, Fair Distribution, and the Public Expenses of Production -- Distribution, Fairness, and the Means of Social Consumption -- Socialism, Self-Realisation, and Human Need -- Critique of Reformist and Vulgar Socialism - Happiness without Meaning -- Notes -- Chapter 7. Political Justice: Ethics and the Good Life of Democratic Socialism -- Franco-Prussian War and the Formation of the Paris Commune of 1871 -- Dismantling the Old State and Rise of Political Democracy in the Commune -- Organisation of Labour and Economic Democracy -- 'Declaration to the French People' and the Social Programmes of the Commune -- Marx, Lincoln, and the Human Emancipation from Racial and Wage Slavery -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Economic Justice: Ethics, Production, and the Critique of Chrematistics and Political Economy -- Commodities, Exchange, and the Labour Theory of Value. Labour Power, Surplus Value, and the Alienation of Chrematistic Production -- Natural Law of Contradictions, Crises, and Capital -- Natural Law of Justice and Natural Law of Value -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Marx and Social Justice, George E. McCarthy presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of the ethical, political, and economic foundations of Marx's theory of social justice in his early and later writings.