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Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Hardcover, New)
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Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
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In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of
self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and
therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle
is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect
each person's freedom to do as he wishes with himself. The author
argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises
to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom
should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He
goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of
exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in
the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what
should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply
inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an
egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he
argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism.
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