Marx And Social Justice

Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy
Author(s): George McCarthy
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
ISBN-13: 9781608460113, 978-1608460113

Synopsis

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. What is distinctive about Marx's theory is that he rejects the views of justice in liberalism and reform socialism based on legal rights and fair distribution by balancing ancient Greek philosophy with nineteenth-century political economy. Each chapter in the book represents a different aspect of social justice.