PP247 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Productive Forces, Hubris, Workplace Democracy
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A moral case for socialism - kai nielsen. Nielsen puts forth a case for socialism. He identifies and explicates a cluster of values that are basic to our culture- freedom and autonomy, equality, justice, rights, and democracy- and then compares pure socialism and pure capitalism in respect to these values. Concludes that a socialist system is much more likely to exemplify our basic values than a capitalist one. In na, capitalism is under criticism for its alleged economic inefficiency and its moral and human inadequacy. Capitalism requires the existence of private productive property (private ownership of the means of production) while socialism works toward its abolition. What is essential for socialism is public ownership and control of the means of production and public ownership means exactly that: ownership by the public. Under capitalism, there is a domain of private property rights in the means of production which are not subject to political determination.
