Autonomy Against Capitalism

[Sam Pawlett]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Sam,
> 
> I'm not clear about the point of this post. Is it an expression of your
> politics? Do you think this theory of autonomy is one progressives
> should be interested in? Why did you post it? Is it your critique of
> Raz? If so, why do you select him out of a thousand authors
> out there to critique? Did you draw him in a lottery?
> 

   Well, what do *you* think, that's why i post these things. Autonomy
is one way one of criticizing capitalism. Robert Paul Wolff wrote a neat
little book called *In Defense of Anarchism* where he takes this
approach. Besides Rawls and Nagel, Raz is one of the best left-liberal
philosophers around.

    Do you think personal autonomy is important or is it just another
bourgeois concept invented by naval gazing academicians?
Sam Pawlett