Moral Critique of Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty
Keywords:
Piketty, inequality, Rawls, normative deficit, distributive justiceAbstract
In this article, I examine Piketty’s proposal in Capital and Ideology to solve the contradictions inherent to capitalism (the “participative socialism”). To achieve this goal, I reconstruct and make explicit the central normative commitments he endorses, and show the problems and limitations that these commitments have. Specifically, I show that, when compared with other possible distributive principles, the proposal of participative socialism is vulnerable to many objections, which Piketty cannot compellingly answer.
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