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Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism By Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism by Igor Shoikhedbrod


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Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx's new materialist understanding of justice, legality, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism.

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Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx's new materialist understanding of justice, legality, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism. The book begins by reconstructing Marx's conception of justice and rights through close textual interpretation and extrapolation. The central thesis of the book is, firstly, that Marx regards justice as an essential feature of any society, including the emancipated society of the future; and secondly, that standards of justice and right undergo transformation throughout history. The book then tracks the enduring legacy of Marx's critique of liberal justice by examining how leading contemporary political theorists such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Nancy Fraser have responded to Marx's critique of liberalism in the face of global financial capitalism and the hollowing out of democratically-enacted law. The Marx that emerges from this book is therefore a thoroughly modern thinker whose insights shed valuable light on some of the most pressing challenges confronting liberal democracies today.


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Igor Shoikhedbrod's Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism is an engaging and worthy effort to reconstruct a Marxist account of legal rights that goes beyond a critique of liberal formalism and lays the groundwork for a positive theory of communist legality. ... There is much to recommend Shoikhedbrod's book. (William Clare Roberts, The Review of Politics, Vol. 84 (3), 2022)

[Shoikhedbrod's] rereading of Marx is intended to accomplish two tasks: first, to show that Marx believed liberalism and liberal rights were an impressive historical accomplishment; and second, to argue that overcoming the limits of liberalism in a classless society wouldn't necessarily mean the end of legality and some transliberal conception of rights. ... It is to Shoikhedbrod's great credit that he manages to be highly convincing on both counts, writing an eminently readable book that gives us a better understanding of the relationship between Marxism and liberalism. (Matt McManus, Jacobin Magazine, jacobinmag.com, October 14, 2020)

Shoikhedbrod makes a persuasive case for including Marx in the canon of the great theorists of liberalism and democracy ... . All in all, this is an excellent and timely book. Especially impressive is Shoikhedbrod's attention to Marx's biography and formation as a political actor in his own right. (LSE Review of Books, May 18, 2020)

About Igor Shoikhedbrod

Igor Shoikhedbrod received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently Assistant Professor of Political Theory, at St. Francis Xavier University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction1.1 The Theoretical Background: Then and Now1.2 The Aims of This Book 1.3 Summary of Chapters
PART I
Chapter 2: Situating Marx with Respect to Justice and Right2.1 Conceptualizing Recht 2.2 The Influence of Hegelian Rational Law2.3 From Rational Law to the New Materialist Theory of Right 2.4 A New Materialist Basis for RightConclusion
Chapter 3: Marx's Radical Critique of Liberalism and the Supersession of Bourgeois Rights3.1 On the Jewish Question: Marx's Selective Critique of Bourgeois Rights3.2 Marx's Assessment of Rights in the Grundrisse and in Capital3.3 Rights, Revolution, and Communist Society3.4 The Supersession of Rights and the Conceptual Relevance of AufhebungConclusion
Chapter 4: The Normative Argument for Communist Legality4.1 Forecasting the Withering Away of Law: The Theoretical Deviations of Evgeny Pashukanis4.2 Pitting Pashukanis against Marx4.3 The Dubiousness of Technical Regulation4.4 Defining the Terms of Recognition: Cognitive and Normative Considerations4.5 Alienated Production versus Associated Production: Marx's Radical Account of Recognition4.6 Mutual Recognition and the Reconstitution of Juridical Personhood4.7 The Preliminary Case for Communist Legality4.8 Legality without Organized Coercion?4.9 In Search of Marx's Social Ontology: Lukacs and the Ethical Necessity of Legal MediationConclusion
PART II
Chapter 5: Contemporary Responses to Marx's Critique of Liberal Justice5.1 John Rawls: Property-Owning Democracy and the Aporia of Concentrated Capital5.2 Jurgen Habermas: Systemic Colonization and the Tension Between Democracy and Capitalism5.3 Axel Honneth: Market Morality, Social Freedom, and the Marx Problem 5.4 Nancy Fraser: The Crisis of Financialized Capitalism and De-DemocratizationConclusion
Chapter 6: Democracy and the Riddle of All Constitutions: Marx's Enduring Lessons6.1 Unjust Laws and the Norms Underpinning the Rule of Law: Marx and E.P. Thompson6.2 The Rule of Law and the Struggle for a Normal Working Day6.3 The Struggle over the Constitution6.4 Solving the Riddle of All Constitutions: The Renewed Urgency of Transformative PoliticsConclusion
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography

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NLS9783030301972
9783030301972
3030301974
Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhedbrod
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-01-14
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