ABSTRACT

This book analyzes Marxian theories of justice within the context of contemporary political philosophy and intellectual history.

Transcending perspectives from classical Marxism, the author analyzes how Western Marxism has engaged with critically and responded to the theories of justice, especially since the 1970s. The nine chapters cover major intellectual movements and multi-dimensional frameworks of thought that critique and understand anew the idea of justice, including anglophone debates on Marxism and justice, global distributive justice, and viewpoints from analytical Marxism, radical egalitarianism, the Frankfurt School, Marxian feminism and ecological Marxism. The second part of the book returns to the classical texts of Marxism, with a focus on historical materialism and a critique of capitalism to reinterpret basic tenets of justice in Marxism and to reconstruct Marxian theory of justice.

This title will be of value to scholars and students interested in theories of justice, Marxian philosophy and political philosophy.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 7|18 pages

Dimensions of Justice in Marxist Feminism

chapter 9|11 pages

Dimensions of Global Distributive Justice

chapter 10|11 pages

Returning to Marx

Theory of Justice and Historical Materialism

chapter 11|14 pages

Returning to Marx

Theory of Justice and Critique on Capitalism

chapter 12|7 pages

Marx's Principles of Justice

chapter 13|10 pages

Marxist Theory of Justice

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

Contemporary Formulation of the Marxist Theory of Justice