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The Socialist Polis: Antiquity And Socialism In Marx's Thought, Claudio Katz
The Socialist Polis: Antiquity And Socialism In Marx's Thought, Claudio Katz
Political Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The central question guiding this essay is: what does Marx's socialism owe to classical antiquity? Underlying this question is the thesis that Marx's studies of classical Greece supply the angle of vision necessary to bring to light the hallmark of his conception of the socialist polity. The argument challenges a widespread interpretation of the connection between antiquity and socialism in Marx's work—that his socialist vision takes its bearings from the Aristotelian understanding of the relationship between necessity and leisure. In Marx's view, the fundamental legacy of antiquity was the notion of freedom as masterlessness. The roots of this legacy are …