Laboring under Socialism
In: Problems of communism, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 57
ISSN: 0032-941X
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In: Problems of communism, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 57
ISSN: 0032-941X
In: East European quarterly, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 133
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In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 301
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 1, S. 301-318
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: Socialism and democracy: the bulletin of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 81-104
ISSN: 1745-2635
In: Socialism and democracy: the bulletin of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 85-91
ISSN: 1745-2635
In: Fabian tract 216
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 11, S. 520-530
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In: Public affairs quarterly: PAQ ; philosophical studies of public policy issues, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 243-264
ISSN: 2152-0542
AbstractAccording to G. A. Cohen, the principles of justice are insensitive to facts about human moral limitations. This assumption allows him to mount a powerful defense of socialism. Here, I present a dilemma for Cohen. On the one hand, if such socialism is to be realized through collective property ownership, then the information problem renders the ideal incoherent, not merely infeasible. On the other hand, if socialism is to incorporate private ownership of productive assets, then Cohen loses the resources to distinguish his view from capitalism. For, if agents were ideally motivated, there would be no need for coercive taxation schemes and limitations on trade. Moreover, incorporating coercion drastically undermines Cohen's original argument for socialism, which relies on an analogy to a camping trip among friends.
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