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James, David Neil (2019) Marx's genealogy of the idea of equality. European Journal of Philosophy, 27 (4). pp. 898-911. doi:10.1111/ejop.12464 ISSN 0966-8373.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12464
Abstract
Contrary to egalitarian readings of both Marx's critique of capitalist society and its replacement by communist society, his lack of commitment to the idea of equality has been emphasized. I argue that Marx's statements concerning the idea of equality, and especially how it would represent an inappropriate norm for genuine communist society, are ultimately to be explained in terms of its relation to the exchange value that governs acts of commodity exchange. Marx wants to show how general recognition of the idea of equality and the legal and political forms that it assumes have their origin in the way in which exchange value has come to dominate social relations, leading human beings to develop an abstract conception of themselves, others and how the world ought to be that is incompatible with the goals of communist society.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Philosophy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0966-8373 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 898-911 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ejop.12464 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: James, D. Marx's genealogy of the idea of equality. Eur J Philos. 2019; 1– 14. , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12464. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 May 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 July 2021 | ||||||||
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