reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

If it's axiomatic, one can't argue it. But I suggest you look at Marx's 
critique of equal material rewards in the Critique of the Gotha Program. 
That creates what he calls "a right of inequality." It's self-defeating: 
treating people equally materially is not treating the equally, because it 
ignores the ways in which they are individual.--jks


>
>>Personally, I think this talk of equalization of compensation if petty
>>bourgeois idealism; workers don't want it; Marx rejected it. It's liberal
>>guilt. ...
>>
>>--jks
>
>I don't feel particularly liberal or guilty.  It's axiomatic with me that
>social justice requires a commitment to equal outcomes and that, in turn,
>requires that compensation be awarded equally to every individual in
>society.  If some people turn out to be slackers under such a system, 
>that's
>fine with me; ostracism would probably incline them to mend their ways, and
>even if it didn't, I think most people would be bound by a sense of mutual
>obligation to keep the economy viable.
>
>Carl
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