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The quantitative increase in productivity through full automation, for example, can be accompanied by the qualitative degradation of working conditions as well as of the natural environment, hindering the full development of the individual. For Marx, that does not necessarily count as the real development of ‘productive forces’.
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito
What agents would choose in certain well-defined conditions of ignorance (in the “original position”) is, for Rawls, an important criterion for determining which conception of “justice” is normatively acceptable. __Why should we agree that choice under conditions of ignorance is a good criterion for deciding what kind of society we would wish to have?__
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
Capitalism is not the only mode of production in which massive poverty exists alongside enormous wealth, but it is the only mode of production where a surplus of goods constitutes a problem: unsellable goods lead to the ruin of their owner while people who need these goods the most are unable to sell the only thing they possess: their labor-power. The reason is that capital has no need for their labor-power, since it cannot profitably make use of it.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
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