Colloque - Socialisme et égalitarisme libéral : un dialogue nécessaire - Chiara Cordelli : Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None

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Chiara Cordelli discusses the critiques of capitalism and the role of socialism in addressing social alienation.

Lea Ypi L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures (2025-2026) Collège de France Année 2025-2026 Colloque : Socialisme et égalitarisme libéral : un dialogue nécessaire Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None Chiara Cordelli Professor, Political Science Dept. University of Chicago Résumé Recently, political philosophy has witnessed a revival of debates about the wrong of capitalism and the point of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only contingently on unjust distributions. The point of socialism is thus to achieve distributive justice. Others have objected that capitalism is intrinsically unjust, because dominating, regardless of the presence of distributive injustice. The point of socialism is to overcome the injustice of domination through workers' collective control of the labor process. I argue that both views provide an insufficient critique of capitalism, with regards to their site of analysis, as well as their account of the distinctive wrong of capitalism, the point of socialism, and its institutional demands. I propose a normative critique of capitalism that (i) focuses on capitalism's mode of investment and valuation…

People in this episode

Guest: Chiara Cordelli

Topics covered

• socialism
• capitalism
• political philosophy
• distributive justice
• social alienation
• workers' control

Keywords

• capitalism
• socialism
• alienation
• political philosophy
• distributive justice
• workers' control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Chicago

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