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Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism By Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism by Igor Shoikhedbrod


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

Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism Summary

Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhedbrod

Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marxs 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 Marxs 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 Marxs 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 Marxs critique of liberalism in the face of global financial capitalism and the hollowing out of democratically-enacted law. TheMarx 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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Shoikhedbrods text has the additional merit of offering illuminating solutions to some longstanding puzzles. Shoikhedbrods book succeedsmore than any previous attemptto close the distance between right and Marxism, and to challenge the monopoly over normative theorization about legality . And, since radical movementsif not Marxist theoristshave long understood the importance of political struggles over rights and right, it also succeeds in closing a glaring gap between radical theory and practice. (Omar Garcia, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 22 (4), December, 2023)

Igor Shoikhedbrods Revisiting Marxs 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 Shoikhedbrods book. (William Clare Roberts, The Review of Politics, Vol. 84 (3), 2022)

[Shoikhedbrods] 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 wouldnt necessarily mean the end of legality and some transliberal conception of rights. It is to Shoikhedbrods 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 Shoikhedbrods attention to Marxs biography and formation as a political actor in his own right. (LSE Review of Books, May 18, 2020)

About Igor Shoikhedbrod

Igor Shoikhedbrodreceived 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

1. Chapter 1: Introduction.- 2.Chapter 2: Situating Marx with Respect to Justice and Right.- 3.Chapter 3: Marxs Radical Critique of Liberalism and the Supersession of Bourgeois Rights.- 4.Chapter 4: The Normative Argument for Communist Legality.- 5.Chapter 5: Contemporary Responses to Marxs Critique of Liberal Justice.- 6.Chapter 6: Democracy and the Riddle of All Constitutions: Marxs Enduring Lessons.- 7.Chapter 7: Conclusion

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NPB9783030301941
9783030301941
303030194X
Revisiting Marxs Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhedbrod
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2019-12-27
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