>From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right - answers to you al
>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:32:38 -0500
>
>Food Is, Still, Clearly Not a Human Right - answers to you al
> "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
>
> >CB: What is the relationship between rights and freedoms ? What is the
> >relationship between rights and the state ?
> >
> >
>
>Since you asked . . .
>
>If Rawls is right,
>
>
>CB: "If", meaning you are uncertain, agnostic, skeptical, lukewarm about
>this ? Do you believe it enough to act on it ?
The last question is the right one for a pragmatist. Yes, I do.
> the correct principles of justice make the right to
>equal, maximally extensive freedom, first of all negative freedom, prior
>over other rights, including fair equality of opportunity and realtive
>economic equality. The state is supposed to guarantee basic rights by
>protecting them in law.
>>CB:
>
>So, in your scheme , there is no contemplation of the end of the state,as
>in Marx's theory ? You don't see the state ending with the end of class
>exploitative society, as Marxists do ?
>
That is correct. You know this from our debates on the necessity of law in a communist society.
jks
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