As Free and as Just as Possible The Theory of

Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures. Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and political theory Distills a new concept of justice that recognizes the iniquities of capitalism Synthesis of elements of Marxism and Liberalism will interest readers in both camps Direct and jargon-free style opens these complex ideas to a wide readership

Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. A central figure in numerous political and philosophical debates in America, including those on abortion and criminal justice, he is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Death Penalty: For and Against (with Louis Pojman, 1998), Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life (1999), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 10th edn. (with Paul Leighton, forthcoming), and more than a hundred articles on philosophy and criminal justice.

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Overview of the Argument for Marxian Liberalism	p. 1
Marx and Rawls and Justice	p. 29
Marx's Theory of Capitalism and Its Ideology	p. 30
Rawls's Theory of Justice as Fairness	p. 39
Rawls on Marx	p. 52
Marx and Justice	p. 57
Marxian Liberalism's Historical Conception of Justice	p. 61
The Natural Right to Liberty and the Need for a Social Contract	p. 67
A Lockean Argument for the Right to Liberty	p. 70
Our Rational Moral Competence	p. 78
From Liberty to Lockean Contractarianism	p. 88
The Ambivalence of Property: Expression of Liberty and Threat to Liberty	p. 94
Locke, Nozick, and the Ambivalence of Property	p. 96
Kant, Narveson, and the Ambivalence of Property	p. 102
Marx and the Structural Coerciveness of Property	p. 111
The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle	p. 122
The Moral Version of the Labor Theory of Value	p. 123
The Labor Theory of the Difference Principle	p. 128
Finding a Just Distribution	p. 133
Is the Difference Principle Biased?	p. 141
Answering Narveson and Cohen on Incentives	p. 147
The Marxian-Liberal Original Position	p. 158
Property and Subjugation	p. 160
The Limits of Property	p. 163
The Marxian Theory of the Conditions of Liberty	p. 168
Inside the Marxian-Liberal Original Position	p. 172
The Difference Principle as a Historical Principle of Justice	p. 183
As Free and as Just as Possible: Capitalism for Marxists, Communism for Liberals	p. 190
The Just State	p. 191
Capitalism for Marxists	p. 195
The Marxian-Liberal Ideal: Property-Owning Democracy	p. 197
Communism for Liberals	p. 204
Conclusion: Marx's "Liberalism," Rawls's "Labor Theory of Justice"	p. 210
Index	p. 221
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