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First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- History as a science --- Marx, Karl --- Historical materialism --- Dialectical materialism --- History --- Marxian historiography --- Philosophy --- Marx, Karl. --- Historical materialism. --- Marx, Karl, --- Marx --- Geschichtstheorie. --- Abundance. --- Alienation. --- Art and literature. --- Britain. --- Capital. --- Causation. --- Commerce. --- Competition. --- Dialectic. --- Economic structure. --- Exploitation. --- Fetishism. --- Geography. --- Gilds. --- Human nature. --- Ideology. --- Instruments of production. --- Knowledge (as productive force). --- Labour. --- Means of production. --- Merchants. --- Money. --- Nature. --- Needs. --- Ownership. --- Peasants. --- Political economy. --- Productive forces. --- Rationality. --- Revolution. --- Scarcity. --- Trade unions. --- United States. --- Makesi, --- Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- 马克思, --- 馬克思, --- Marukusu, --- マルクス, --- Marx, Heinrich Karl, --- Marks, Karl, --- Marx, Carlos, --- Marks, K. --- Marŭkʻŭsŭ, Kʻal, --- 마르크스, 칼, --- Marksŭ, --- 맑스, --- Marks, Karol, --- Mác, Các, --- Marx, Karel, --- Marksas, Karolis, --- Marx, Carlo, --- Mác, C., --- מארכס, --- מארכס, קארל, --- מארכס, קרל, --- מארכס, ק --- מארקס --- מארקס, קארל --- מארקס, קארל, --- מארקס, קרל, --- מארקס, ק. --- מרכס, קרל --- מרכס, קרל, --- ماركس، كارل --- ماركس، كارل، --- Markso, Karlo, --- Ma-k�o-ssu, --- Maarkis, Kaaral, --- M�ac, C., --- M�ac, C�ac, --- Marks�u, --- Mar�uk��us�u, K�al,

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Socialism --- Socialism. --- Socialisme. --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory

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In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people’s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality. In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawls’s theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making. Cohen also charges Rawls’s constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.

Equality --- Social justice --- Communism --- Social Justice --- HM 821 Social stratification. Social inequality. Equality. -- General works --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Communism. --- Bolshevism --- Equality. --- Social justice. --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Justice --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty

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This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy. In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.

Equality. --- Distributive justice. --- Social justice. --- Communism. --- Liberalism. --- Religion and social problems. --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Equality --- Justice --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Social justice --- Wealth --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Communism --- Distributive justice --- Liberalism --- Religion and social problems --- Egalité (Sociologie) --- Communisme --- Socialisme --- Libéralisme --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy

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