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136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy

136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy10 Jun9 min

In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It says that the point of equality is to live in a society of equals. Its proponents skewered famous analytical Marxists for having a reductive and economistic view of justice. Was this fair? Join us to find out. This is just a short teaser of the full ep...