As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism

List of Abbreviations ixPreface xi1 Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism 12 Marx and Rawls and Justice 292.1 Marx's Theory of Capitalism and Its Ideology 302.2 Rawls's Theory of Justice as Fairness 392.3 Rawls on Marx 522.4 Marx and Justice 572.5 Marxian Liberalism's Historical Conception of Justice 613 The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a Social Contract 673.1 A Lockean Argument for the Right to Liberty 703.2 Our Rational Moral Competence 783.3 From Liberty to Lockean Contractarianism 884 The Ambivalence of Property: Expression of Liberty and Threat to Liberty 944.1 Locke, Nozick, and the Ambivalence of Property 964.2 Kant, Narveson, and the Ambivalence of Property 1024.3 Marx and the Structural Coerciveness of Property 1115 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 1225.1 The Moral Version of the Labor Theory of Value 1235.2 The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle 1285.3 Finding a Just Distribution 1335.4 Is the Difference Principle Biased? 1415.5 Answering Narveson and Cohen on Incentives 1476 The Marxian-Liberal Original Position 1586.1 Property and Subjugation 1606.2 The Limits of Property 1636.3 The Marxian Theory of the Conditions of Liberty 1686.4 Inside the Marxian-Liberal Original Position 1726.5 The Difference Principle as a Historical Principle of Justice 1837 As Free and as Just as Possible: Capitalism for Marxists, Communism for Liberals 1907.1 The Just State 1917.2 Capitalism for Marxists 1957.3 The Marxian-Liberal Ideal: Property-Owning Democracy 1977.4 Communism for Liberals 204Conclusion: Marx's "Liberalism," Rawls's "Labor Theory of Justice" 210Index 221