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Self-Ownership, Communism and Equality Author(s): G. A. Cohen, Keith Graham |
“In this chapter I argue that Marxist reliance on material super-abundance as the solution to social problems is connected with Marxist reluctance to effect an absolute break with certain radical bourgeois values. The ‘Marxist technological fix’ has served as a means of avoiding questions about justice which those who seek to carry the Marxist tradition forward cannot now consciously ignore. I shall call the bourgeois thought structure from which, so I claim, Marxism has failed to distinguish itself (sufficiently thoroughly), ‘leftwing libertarianism’. Since the meaning which I assign to that phrase is not the only one it could reasonably be thought to bear, I must explain how I shall use it here. A libertarian, in the present sense, is one who affirms the principle of self-ownership, which occupies a prominent place in the ideology of capitalism. That principle says, as we have seen, that every person is morally entitled to full private property in his own person and powers.”
“U ovom poglavlju tvrdim da je marksističko oslanjanje na materijalno preobilje kao rešenje društvenih problema povezano sa marksističkom nespremnošću da ostvari apsolutni raskid sa određenim radikalnim buržoaskim vrednostima. „Marksističko tehnološko rešenje“ služilo je kao sredstvo za izbegavanje pitanja o pravdi koje oni koji žele da sprovedu marksističku tradiciju ne mogu sada dosledno ignorisati. Nazvaću buržoasku misaonu strukturu od koje se, tvrdim, marksizam nije uspeo (dovoljno temeljno) razlikovati, „levičarski libertarijanizam“. S obzirom da značenje koje dodeljujem toj frazi nije jedino za koje bi se razumno moglo smatrati da nosi, moram objasniti kako ću je ovde koristiti. Libertarijanac, u sadašnjem smislu, je onaj koji afirmiše princip sopstvenog vlasništva, koji zauzima istaknuto mesto u ideologiji kapitalizma. Taj princip kaže, kao što smo videli, da svaka osoba ima moralno pravo na potpunu privatnu svojinu u svojoj ličnosti i ovlašćenjima.”
Key words: authors/ G. A. Cohen, Keith Graham, Language/ English, self-ownership, Communism, equality, abundance, Marxism, bourgeois, justice, Libertarianism, property, private property
Ključne reči: autori / G.A.Cohen, Keith Graham, Jezik / Engsleski, Samo-vlasništvo, komunizam, ravnopravnost, izobilje, Marksizam, buržoasko, pravda, libertarijanizam, svojina, privatna svojina
