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The Renewed Search for Social Trusteeship: Cohen and Fitch on Social Justice and the City
Author(s) -
Cowen M.P.,
Shenton R.W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6443.00055
Subject(s) - parallels , underdevelopment , mill , george (robot) , socialism , sociology , face (sociological concept) , convict , social thought , economic justice , law , political science , environmental ethics , philosophy , social science , criminology , history , art history , politics , economics , communism , archaeology , operations management
It has become a commonplace to argue that in the face of a discredited Marxism, socialism must find an alternative basis for a renewed project. This article investigates two of these claims by Gerald Cohen and Bob Fitch. It does so with particular reference to the attempt by these authors to re‐invoke, both wittingly and unwittingly, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Henry George, and Auguste Comte among others as the source of a renewed left project. It takes as its special concern the way in which the supposed need to revivify "industry" in the late twentieth century parallels the often voiced need to revivify "agriculture" in the late nineteenth century as a means of staving off "underdevelopment."