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James, David Neil (2017) The compatibility of freedom and necessity in Marx’s idea of communist society. European Journal of Philosophy, 25 (2). pp. 270-293. doi:10.1111/ejop.12209
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12209
Abstract
Taking a well-known passage from the third volume of Capital as my starting point, I explain on what grounds Marx thinks that freedom and necessity will be compatible in a communist society. The necessity in question concerns having to produce to satisfy material needs. Unlike some accounts of this issue, I argue that the compatibility of freedom and necessity in communist society has more to do with how production is organized than with the direct relation of the worker to the object produced or to his or her own productive activity. Moreover, I show how self-realization and a form of activity that possesses an intrinsic value are made possible by the organization of the production process and how this is integral to Marx's account of the compatibility of freedom and necessity in communist society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communism, Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 -- Criticism, Textual, Liberty, Hours of labor | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Philosophy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0966-8373 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 270-293 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/ejop.12209 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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