Correspondence: Focusing on appropriative class justice: a comment on DeMartino's "Realizing Class Justice"

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Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Burczak, T.

Source:

Rethinking Marxism, Volume 16, Number 2, p.207--209 (2004)

Abstract:

This paper offers a comment on George DeMartino's insightful paper that proposes a tripartite notion of class justice. For DeMartino, class justice involves productive justice, appropriative justice, and distributive justice. The paper argues for a strong definition of appropriative justice, which would limit appropriation to productive workers, as would exist in the case of worker-owned firms. It argues against a weak definition of appropriative justice, which would permit appropriation by the entire community, because of its association with the widely discredited model of central planning.