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The Kantian Person/Thing Principle in Political Economy. An argument for workplace democracy (mastodon.social)
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The Kantian Person/Thing Principle in Political Economy. An argument for workplace democracy

https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/KantianPrinciple-JEI.pdf

The paper presents a theory of workers' rights. It demonstrates that workers have an inalienable right to workplace democracy and to appropriate the fruits of their labor. Inalienable means the rights cannot be given up even with consent. It implies that all companies should be structured as worker coops and employer-employee contract should be abolished @philosophy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tend to agree with this. I've thought for a while that the second formulation of the categorical imperative has anticapitalist implications, so it's nice to see someone smarter and more knowledgable than me explore it in detail!