Liberal Socialism exposes false ideas of justice behind neo-liberal capitalism and combines Rawls' ideas on justice and Marx's views on capitalism to make a plausible case for the alternative social ideal of liberal socialism. A fixed social structure gives equal weight to all competing claims for rights, liberties, and shares of the burdens and benefits of social cooperation, while allowing a democratic majority vote for liberal socialism.
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This article, part of a symposium on Christopher A. Arthur's The New Dialectic and Marx's 'Capital', begins with a summary characterization of the work, suggesting that the aim is to bring out features of the structure of Marx's analysis of capitalism &, sometimes, to reconstruct or "correct" it, & then, going a step further, to argue that the structure of Hegel's Logic & that of capital are homologous because, in the particular case of capital, reality is structured as a self-realizing identity. The present article suggests that Arthur's analysis of capitalism breaks down at the point of this attempted homology, & puts forth what is considered a simpler & safer explanation of the homology between Hegel's Logic & Marx's Capital. It is also argued that Arthur is mistaken in treating value as an empty shell that needs to be filled with the social relations of production of capital in order to have any content at all; an alternative conception of value is then offered. The article concludes by showing that Arthur's analyis of capitalist expoitation, although basically correct, appears somewhat one-sided, once commodity exchange is divested of its particular, spectral quality. 14 References. T. K. Brown
The photographs by the British artist Roger Palmer, illustrated in this issue, take us to places such as South Africa, Canada, Scotland and Ireland, but in ways quite distinct from photojournalism. Palmer uses shallow spatial arrangements and a dialogue with many forms of art -- his own wall drawings, vernacular art, abstract art and also western European painting --to make unpeopled images that imply some of the difficulties of cultural negotiation. The viewer is placed in an encounter with surfaces, reflections, traces of wear and tear from passing humans and signs that they have left, both legible and illegible.
As a conservative John Gray deplores the impact of the New Right ideology adopted by the British Conservative Party on the ongoing culture of British society. While not sharing his belief that political action can only aspire to warding off evils, this paper explores the corrosive impact of New Right ideology on the ethos of the university sector in Australia. In essence, New Right ideology would have universities ape business manners, charging customers for its services and discarding university forms of employee self-management based on academic freedom and collegiate governance, so as to cut the cost of university expansion to a minimum and maximise its industry pay-offs. This paper argues that corporatized and market oriented universities will be unable to sustain access to all on the basis of ability, or sustain self-directed research and teaching, which are essential for a vibrant and creative university.
Presents a dialectical reconstruction of Marxist historical materialism that preserves its essential features, yet avoids the charge of obscurantism. This reconstruction is based on a demonstration that the distinctions between the concepts of productive forces, social relations of production, & the legal & political infrastructure are best understood dialectically as a unity of political opposites. Karl Marx's account of the dialectic of production & consumption in the introduction to the Grundrisse (1857/58) is employed to support this interpretation, in comparison to its main competitor, the reconstructive Marxist theory offered by Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine, & Elliott Sober (1992). It is concluded that the efficacy of this dialectical interpretation will ultimately be judged according to the adequacy of explanations produced by its research program. 52 References. D. Ryfe
