Lecture
CPP Colloquium On the Radical Republican Critique of Capitalism
- Date
- Thursday 6 June 2024
- Time
- Series
- CPP Colloquia 2023-2024
- Location
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Gravensteen
Pieterskerkhof 6
2311 SR Leiden - Room
- 1.11
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Chiara Cordelli, professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Abstract
Political philosophy is witnessing a revival of critiques of capitalism. Against those who argue that capitalism is unjust because of (i) its distributive outcomes, (ii) the oppression of workers at the point of production, or (iii) the extraction of surplus value by the owners of capital, radical republicans have recently defended the view that the distinctive wrong of capitalism amounts to a form of structural domination, which is contingent neither on distributional outcomes nor on capitalists’ extractive dispositions. The point of socialism, in turn, is to achieve non-domination in the labor process, by means of workers’ ownership and control. My goal will be to, first, show some of the limits of radical republicanism as a critique of capitalism and, second, to sketch an alternative account of the wrong of capitalism as an alienated relation between citizens and their socio-political order. Overcoming such relation requires not just workers’ control, but the politicization of investment decisions otherwise treated as purely economic, and the involvement of citizens in the conscious planning of the economy.
About the Center for Political Philosophy (CPP) Colloquia Series
The CPP is a collaboration between the Institute for Philosophy and the Institute for Political Science at Leiden University. Attendance of the Colloquia is free and there is no need to register. See CPP for more information. For further questions please contact dr. Tim Meijers at t.meijers@hum.leidenuniv.nl
All are welcome!