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‘Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism?
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Jan Narveson
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November 1, 2017
Abstract
Justin Holt argues that the Rawlsian requirements for justice are, contrary to Rawls’ own pronouncements, better met by socialism than ‘property owning democracy’, both of them preferring both to just plain capitalism, even with a welfare state tacked on. I suggest that Rawls’s ‘requirements’ are far less clear than most think, and that the only clarified version prefers the capitalist welfare state.
Keywords : Democracy; property-owning democracy; markets; constitutional restrictions; difference principle; equality
Published Online: 2017-11-01
Published in Print: 2017-11-01
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Democracy;
property-owning democracy;
markets;
constitutional restrictions;
difference principle;
equality
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- Focus: Evaluating Societies Morally?
- How Should One Evaluate the Soviet Revolution?
- The Philosophy of History: A Value-pluralist Response
- Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies
- Strategies for the Justification of Law
- Legitimacy without Liberalism: A Defense of Max Weber’s Standard of Political Legitimacy
- General Part
- The Secularization Theory—Not Disconfirmed, Yet Rarely Tested
- Paths to Modernity and the Secularization Issue
- What Can we Learn from ‘Postmodern’ Critiques of Education for Autonomy?
- Discussion: Comments on J. Holt, Requirements of Justice and Liberal Socialism
- ‘Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism?
- Democratic Rights and the Choice of Economic Systems
- The Demands of Democratic Ownership
