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The Hammer and the Orchestra: Democratic Production from Kant to Angela Davis
The Hammer and the Orchestra: Democratic Production from Kant to Angela Davis

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Many philosophers, from Kant and Marx to Rawls and Angela Davis, take the nature of the economy to be central to the justification of the democratic state. Inequalities of income and wealth, they say, corrupt democratic institutions not only indirectly, . . .

Many philosophers, from Kant and Marx to Rawls and Angela Davis, take the nature of the economy to be central to the justification of the democratic state. Inequalities of income and wealth, they say, corrupt democratic institutions not only indirectly, through their influence on human psychology, elections, government agendas but also directly through the kind […]

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