| The combination of P. Van Parijs's ideal of left-libertarianism and T. Negri's theory of Autonomy renews Marxism. But the left-libertarian ideal honors the bourgeois principle of self-ownership, whereas Autonomy theory is inconsistent with it. Therefore, in order to elaborate this post-1960s Marxism, only Van Parijs's advocacy of real freedom is retained, here, as the left-libertarian grounds for Autonomy's central theme of self-valorization, which, as the Autonomist transfiguration of self-ownership, complements G. A. Cohen's notion of autonomy.; Both Negri and Cohen rightly locate the libertarian principle of self-ownership with the old Marxism, where they find a latent and concealed commitment to the same libertarian principle of self- valorization. Cohen jettisons self-ownership in favor of autonomy, while Negri transforms self-valorization into a variant of autonomy. Here, since autonomy entails having the means to achieve it, the focus is on the distribution of the means for real freedom. |
