tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post116022015425163143..comments2024-03-25T07:51:47.758-04:00Comments on Thoughts On Economics: Marx And Commentators On Marx On The Justice Of Capitalism (Part 2 Of 3)Robert Vienneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-25686021522864426162015-04-13T06:54:04.160-04:002015-04-13T06:54:04.160-04:00Prof. Daniel Little (who was John Rawls' teach...Prof. Daniel Little (who was John Rawls' teaching assistant in the early 1970s) has an interesting post on the subject of Marx and the theory of justice.<br /><br />According to Little, quoting from Rawls' lecture notes, Rawls, too, agreed that for Marx the problem of exploitation is not one of justice (or lack thereof).<br /><br />Rawls on Marx; December 1973<br />http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/rawls-on-marx-december-1973.html<br /><br />Interestingly, Rawls, as a liberal, was precisely criticizing Marx for that. In other words, in Rawls' opinion, that was a weakness of Marx's ideas.<br /><br />Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.<br /><br />----------<br /><br />As a sidenote: it seems the mantra that Marx (and Adam Smith, of all people) was a moralist became popular during the first half of the 20th century among particularly obtuse English economists, who enjoyed dabbling in philosophy.<br /><br />Ever since their even more obtuse imitators and epigones took to parrot the same shit.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.com