The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal by Axel Honneth

Author:Axel Honneth
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Philosophy, History, Politics
ISBN: 9781509512157
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Castoriadis, “Socialism or Barbarism”; The revisions proposed by the Yugoslavian group “Praxis” should also be mentioned in this context, e.g. Predrag Vranicki, Marxismus und Sozialismus (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1985); Gajo Petrovic, Wider den autoritären Marxismus (Frankfurt/Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1969).

2. Jürgen Habermas, “What Does Socialism Mean Today?”, in R. Blackburn, ed., After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (New York: Verso, 1991), pp. 25–46.

3. See John Roemer, ed., Analytical Marxism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). A very convincing account of the practical and political deficit of analytical Marxism can be found in Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, “My Utopia or Yours”, in E.O. Wright, ed., Equal Shares: Making Market Socialism Work (London/New York: Verso, 1996), pp. 93–109.

4. On the significance and the limits of Marx’ economic theory, see Heimann, Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen, ch. VI.

5. On this discussion, see Wright, ed., Equal Shares.

6. A major exception in Marx’ work, in which he usually speaks of “capitalism” as an “eternal structure” (Max Weber) can be found in his “Inaugural Address of the International Workers’ Association”, in which he speaks of a struggle between the “political economy of the middle class” and that of the “working class” over the best mode of production. In this context he calls the “co-operative movement” and “co-operative factories” “great social experiments”, as if he wished to concede that the task of “social production controlled by social foresight” is a matter of experimentally exploring the possibilities of the (capitalist) market: Karl Marx, “Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association”, in Marx and Engels: Collected Works, Vol. 20 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982), pp. 5–13. For a critique of Marx’ understanding of capitalism as a system that operates according to timeless laws, see Honneth, “Die Moral im ‘Kapital’: Versuch einer Korrektur der Marxschen Ökonomiekritik”.

7. On the first tendency, see Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2014); on the second tendency, see Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (London: Verso, 2014), esp. ch. III.

8. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (London: Penguin Classics, 1999); see Lisa Herzog, Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

9. On the distinctions between these three models, see Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (London: Verso, 2010), ch. 7.

10. Herzog, Inventing the Market; Samuel Fleischacker, On Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), part II.

11. See Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action, pp. 41–65.

12. Ibid.; see also John Dewey, “The Inclusive Philosophic Idea”, in Later Works, Vol. 3, pp. 41–54. See also John Dewey, Experience and Nature, The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988), ch. 5.

13. Dewey, “The Inclusive Philosophic Idea”, p. 43.

14. Dewey, Lectures in China, 1919–1920, pp. 64–71. I owe this reference to the particularity of Dewey’s approach to Arvi Särkelä; see his essay “Ein Drama in drei Akten: Der

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