科恩驳诺齐克的反社会主义论证

On G.A. Cohen's Reply to Nozick's Argument against Socialism

右翼自由主义学者诺齐克在其名著《无政府、国家和乌托邦》中提出了一个著名的反社会主义论证,认为要维持社会主义平等必须以牺牲自由为代价,所以是不正义的。当代分析马克思主义学派代表人物G.A.科恩意识到这种反社会主义论证的危险性,从政治哲学层面对此进行了有效反驳,从而在规范价值层面捍卫了社会主义的可希求性。

Robert Nozick,who is a right-wing liberalist,put forward an influential argument against socialism in his famous book ＂Anarchy,State and Utopia＂.He claimed that maintenance of socialist equality could be achieved only at the expense of freedom.Therefore,socialist equality was unjustified.Being aware of the harm of this statement,G.A.Cohen,a leading representative of the contemporary analytic school of Marxism,made an effective rebuttal against this false thesis by referring to political philosophy,and thus defended the desirability of socialism in terms of the perspective of value norms.