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Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism

Part of the Marx, Engels, and Marxisms Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30195-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-30194-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 27, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 1 –18

[This introductory chapter briefly surveys the leading scholarly literature on Marx’s treatment of justice, legality, and rights from the time of Marx’s death until the present. The chapter outlines the dominant interpretation of Marx as a thinker who was unambiguously opposed to justice,...
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Situating Marx with Respect to Justice and Right

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 21 –53

[This chapter provides an overview of Marx’s understanding of right, justice, rights, and positive law. The chapter considers Marx’s earliest reflections on Recht, beginning with his youthful journalistic writings, which demonstrate a reliance on Hegelian natural law as basis for critiquing...
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Marx’s Radical Critique of Liberalism and the Supersession of Bourgeois Rights

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 55 –95

[This chapter builds on the theoretical reconstruction elaborated in Chapter 2 to re-examine Marx’s critique of liberalism and the fate of rights in post-capitalist society. Against the usual reading of Marx’s critique of liberalism as culminating in the negation or transcendence of rights, this...
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The Normative Argument for Communist Legality

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 97 –134

[This chapter argues for the continued existence of legality in a future communist society in which classes have been abolished along with production on the basis of commodity exchange. More specifically, a normative case is made for a communist version of legality that would mediate between the...
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Contemporary Responses to Marx’s Critique of Liberal Justice

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 137 –180

[This chapter examines how leading contemporary theorists—namely, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Nancy Fraser—have responded to Marx’s critique of liberal justice in the light of the challenges posed by global financial capitalism. These different theoretical responses to Marx...
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Democracy and the Riddle of All Constitutions: Marx’s Enduring Lessons

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 181 –205

[This chapter reconsiders Marx’s reflections on the rule of law and constitutionalism against a background of labour exploitation and authoritarianism. Marx emerges as a thinker whose support for constitutionalism following the failed revolutions of 1848 was based on the view that constitutional...
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Conclusion

Shoikhedbrod, Igor

Pages: 207 –215

[This concluding chapter recapitulates the central arguments and theses presented in Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism with an eye on relevant research issues that extend beyond the book’s scope. These issues include rethinking the idea of the state in a globalized political economy,...

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