[lbo-talk] Entitlements and Rights

[Alan Rudy]

I'd go with the great Marxist vision was the democratization of production
not state legitimation of the contradictions of capitalism by means of aid
to the most destitute.  Among the radicals associated with the New Deal and
Great Society, the point of these programs was to democratize the state - a
state where democracy stopped at the election of representatives and never
included meaningful public participation in the implementation of
legislation by professional and expert-driven bureaucratic forms of
regulation enforcement and service provisioning.  Of course, Marxist
feminists had long advocated for extending the democratization of production
into reproduction/the family/socialization/sexuality but, heck, I figure the
idea of democratizing production or the state's beyond the pail for
Cato-ites and thought of democratizing things like the family etc. might
just make the guy's head explode...

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:40 PM, michael perelman <
michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Ridiculous.  Maybe some right wingers make the tout.  But that was
> hardly Marx's vision.
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am writing up a response to this libertarian blog post that was quoted
> by a friend:
> >
> > http://swaminomics.org/?p=1882
> >
> > (the author is an Indian journalist who is a research fellow at Cato)
> >
> > And one thing with which I can use some help from youse guys is this
> claim by Aiyar (the author) that "Welfarism was once touted as the great
> Marxist vision". From the little I know of Marx and his ideas, this does not
> make much sense. In my understanding, Marx's prescriptions are not the sort
> of market socialism one sees in the West which provides the context for talk
> of "entitlements".
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >        --ravi
> >
> >
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