Open AccessReconstructing the Normative Foundations of Socialism
Author(s) -
Jeff Noonan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
socialist studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-2821
pISSN - 1717-2616
DOI - 10.18740/s47g7h
Subject(s) - normative , socialism , politics , value (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , value of life , sociology , positive economics , globe , political science , neoclassical economics , political economy , law and economics , economics , law , psychology , history , communism , archaeology , neuroscience , microeconomics , machine learning , computer science
In this paper I argue that underlying the different historical permutations of socialism is the normative idea of the life-ground of value. I attempt to reconstruct the normative basis of socialism on the basis of this life-ground. The aim is to make explicit the generalizable value of socialism as in everyone's human life-interests. In the context of a growing crisis of life-conditions across the globe, the hope is to revive political interest in a broad based socialist alternative to an increasingly life-blind global market system.