Justice as fetish: Marx, Pashukanis, and the form of justice

Title:

Justice as fetish: Marx, Pashukanis, and the form of justice

Creator:

Swain, Dan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:2076a4ec-d371-480a-b9da-9f8893f5fcd8
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Subject:

Marx, Pashukanis, Rawls, theories of justice, Soviet jurisprudence, ethics, and commodity fetishism

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Description:

Th is article considers the relevance of the ideas of Soviet jurist Evgeny Pashukanis for debates about the relationship between Marxism and justice. In particular, it employs these ideas as a criticism of those who seek to supplement Marx’s critique of capitalism with liberal theories of justice, paradigmatically those of John Rawls. Pashukanis’s analysis of the legal form as a kind of fetish, arising on the basis of capitalist relations of production, opens up the possibility of a similar criticism of theories of justice. Th is involves more than just the familiar critique that such theories are ideological; Pashukanis suggests an approach that recognises the practical eff ectiveness of theories of justice while also recognising their limits from the perspective of radical critique. Th is new approach allows for a better understanding of how theories of justice might form part of radical theory and practice today.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

Kontradikce: časopis pro kritické myšlení | 2018 Volume:2 | Number:2

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