It is common in political theory and practice to challenge normatively ambitious proposals by
saying that their fulfillment is not feasible. But there has been insufficient conceptual …

This paper offers an exploration of the socialist principle “From each according to their
abilities, to each according to their needs.” The Abilities/Needs Principle is arguably the …

Socialism is a rich tradition of political thought and practice, the history of which contains a
vast number of views and theories, often differing in many of their conceptual, empirical, and …

GA Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was …

Conceptual analysis has fallen out of favor in political philosophy. The influence of figures
like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin has led political philosophy to focus on questions …

It was obviously present in slavery and feudalism, and it is pervasive in contemporary
capitalism-from the clothing factory sweatshops of Bangladesh and the" zero hours" …

Is socialism morally preferable to free market capitalism? GA Cohen has argued that even
when the economic inequalities produced by free markets are not the result of injustice, they …

The work of prominent analytical Marxist GA Cohen provides a vision of socialism which has
distributive justice and community at its core. While Cohen's view of distributive justice has …

Socialism is a large and diverse political tradition, unified by opposition to capitalism.
Economically, socialists also typically support common ownership or some form of social …

Contemporary political philosophers tend to think of the relation between liberalism and
Marxism in terms of the former correcting the deficiencies of the latter, particularly on issues …