POLS 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter None: Gotha Program, Wage Labour, Distributive Justice
6 Apr 2017
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Pols 250 winter term readings: geras the controversy about marx and justice and. Base: origin point of ideology = economic/materia private property in capitalism base evolves over time and changes. Superstructure: everything said about the base that flows logically from it laws and principles of justice exist to enforce the base, objective norms come from the base. Principles of what we are owed have a base in a system of private property. Justice is subjective and drawn from the superstructure a contingent principle. Critique of gotha program: unjust for capitalism might not use the concept of justice in the same way. Justice has be true as a matter of truth not because of context and because of this justice is used not as liberals think it is. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Presence of words such as rob , theft which implies rightful ownership.
