Can I be added, please? Thanks in advance!

Thanks, Jimmy. I’d love to know what you think if you do get round to reading it.

Thanks Callum, your comments were v helpful!

Thanks!

Thanks. I have worked in kitchens, but in this case it was because it’s a depiction of necessary labour that shows how the development of skills can take many different forms. Also, many depictions of work, especially socialist ones, tend to be masculinist. And I also just liked the painting!

Many thanks to all those who discussed it with me, and provided comments and criticisms, including four referees for OUP, whose reports led to many changes and improvements.

Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online:

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In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

Maybe I got it from you! If I recall correctly, Walzer also discusses this passage in Spheres of Justice.

I’ve always liked this passage too, but also always struck by the implication that we should appreciate people for their beauty, intelligence, ability, etc.

Only Part One though! Part Two has not been rehabilitated, though people are I think generally aware of its contents.

Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools Expanding access to Oxbridge and other leading institutions would boost social mobility, say authors of new book

"pupils from prestigious private schools who went to leading universities were 52 times more likely to reach elite positions in society than those who attended any other schools."
#highered #academicsky #edchat #inequality #Oxbridge #education
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Congratulations! It’s an excellent introduction.

Very good.

He passed me by until fairly recently too. But he is very popular with recent cohorts of my Marx and Marxism students.

Just published, my “The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World.”Philosophy and Society 36 (4): 985–1000. Open access.

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Barry Maguire, Rescuing Socialism from Equality - PhilPapers Karl Marx rejected the ideal of equality as bourgeois. And yet, the most significant attempt in recent years to distinguish socialist theory from liberal egalitarian theory, G.A. Cohen's critique of J...

Socialists should be against wage labour altogether, not just against inegalitarian wages. New paper (forthcoming in Mind) aims to 'rescue' Cohen's failed incentives critique from his egalitarianism, basing it more effectively and authentically on caring solidarity.

philpapers.org/rec/MAGRSF

blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/02/l... new post from @jkandiyali.bsky.social and @martinoneill.bsky.social

Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents? | Blog of the APA The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political agenda. Mamdani identifies his political outlook as a form ...

Here @jkandiyali.bsky.social and I start with the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City, and from there talk about justice, alienation, Rawls, Marx, and why we only *partially* agree with Joe Heath ...
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Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents? | Blog of the APA The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political agenda. Mamdani identifies his political outlook as a form ...

The American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social blog asked Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social & me to write a short piece that connects with our recent article on the relationship between liberalism & socialism.
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Speaker Series with Dr. Barry Maguire About the session: Socialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production (joint work with Jan Kandiyali) Historically, socialism has been identified with collective ownership of the means ...

Does socialism require collective ownership of the means of production?

Find out @barrymaguire.bsky.social's (joint work w/ @jkandiyali.bsky.social) answer to this question in the next online Visions Speaker Series! Happening Dec 1.

You can register here:

I can give you a spoiler. It does :)

For Karl Marx, Human Flourishing Is Inherently Social Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.

I wrote something for @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social on Marx on self-realisation in work, and how the prevailing interpretation - put forward by G.A.Cohen - gets Marx wrong.

jacobin.com/2025/10/marx...

Book Review: Marx’s Ethical Vision, by Vanessa Christina Wills - Jan Kandiyali, 2025

Jan Kandiyali on Marx’s Ethical Vision, by Vanessa Christina Wills

Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 75, No 2 This article develops an account of distributive epistemic justice in the production of scientific knowledge. We identify four requirements: (a) science should produce the knowledge citizens need in o...

Faik Kurtulmus and Gurol Irzik have a terrific paper on this and related themes, if you don’t know it already:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Public Philospher: A day in honour of Jo Wolff’s career YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government

Link to the last session of the talks for my retirement conference last week. Ngaire Woods, Avner de-Shalit, @barrycsmith.bsky.social @davidedmonds100.bsky.social Philippe van Parijs and me.

Links to other sessions coming shortly.

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Not a critique as such but I recently read two very good overviews of Raz’s political philosophy: Daniel Viehoff on the morality of freedom on the pea soup blog and David Owens on ‘Raz as a political philosopher’ in modern law review.

I like William Morris too, but the idea of rereading News from Nowhere at the beginning of each year sounds like an unusual form of punishment.

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It was a pleasure to host @leaypi.bsky.social for our annual Adam Smith Lecture and seminar. Special thanks to Mirjam Mueller and Jan Kandiyali as visiting discussants for lively seminars on Lea's work on territorial rights and moral socialism.

We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism What is the relationship between liberalism and socialism? Partisans of each political tradition often focus on the shortcomings of the other, with socialists charging liberals with defending merely f...

New article in Political Philosophy: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism" by Jan Kandiyali (Durham) and Martin O'Neill (York) @jkandiyali.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social, available open access here: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...