According to a long-standing line of thought, markets are objectionable because they motivate people to produce in morally unattractive ways. One prominent objection to this critique is that it misund...

This article engages with two prominent defenses of unequal power from the standpoint of social equality, by Daniel Viehoff (2019) and Ryan Cox (2022), which aim to debunk the Constitution Claim, or t...

Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the ide...

Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the ide...

Many political philosophers believe that freedom of occupational choice rules out both using legal means to force people to work and holding individuals under a moral duty to serve in socially useful ...

In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being denied a democratic say when it comes to our political systems, so shoul...

In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being denied a democratic say when it comes to our political systems, so shoul...

According to a prominent account, the central normative commitments of socialism are a luck egalitarian principle of equality and a principle of community or solidarity. The model has a number of attr...