An Analysis Of Cohen’s View Of Equality

G.A.Cohen is a representative of the analytical Marxist school.In his early research,he focused on the defense of Marx’s historical materialism.However,as the world structure changed,the cause of socialism suffered huge setbacks,coupled with the liberal Nozick’s attack on socialism,Cohen began to focus his research on political norms and moral equality,and constructed his own view of equality.Cohen’s view of equality was formed in the collision of ideas with Nozick and Rawls.In his critique of Nozick’s theory of self-ownership,Cohen proved that freedom and equality are not contradictory in socialism,and initially expressed his idea of equality.In the evaluation of Rawls’ s difference principle,Cohen pointed out that not only the basic structure of society should be standardized,but also the important value of personal behavior in daily life and the morality of the whole society.Cohen pointed out that Rawls emphasized The compulsory structure of society is not enough to bring about social equality,and personal choice is equally important to the realization of social equality.Cohen builds an egalitarian society with the help of the camping travel model and puts forward the "equal principle of obtaining advantages" and the socialist "sharing principle".Only by ethically regulating individual choices and regulating inequality with the "sharing principle" can we achieve distribution justice and move towards socialism..After that,Cohen discussed the feasibility of equal socialism.Cohen used camping trips as a model to build equal socialism.The camping model is feasible in a small area and a short period of time,but is it feasible to extend this model to the whole society? This is a difficult point.Because there are two main difficulties: human selfish nature and poor social technology.In fact,Cohen admits that there is still a long way to go to achieve equal socialism or communism,but no matter what,the pursuit of the ideal of socialist equality cannot be given up.From a realistic point of view.The pursuit of equality is the meaning of the socialist construction with Chinese characteristics in the new era.The rapid economic development of our country also breeds many unequal social problems.In this context,Cohen’s view of equality can bring us important inspiration and guidance.