Is redistribution like slavery? Or, if that's ridiculous, how should we feel about Marx's argument that surplus labor extraction under capitalism is analogous to previous systems of coerced labor?

Here’s the recording for the fourteenth session of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers (where we actually finished Section I of Ch. 7 of Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia finally). Next Tuesday we’ll be starting 7.2 (so we’re finally getting to the Nozick vs. Rawls stuff!). We decided to read the first couple subsections (so, ending just before “The Original Position and End-Result Principles”).

Also, remember that this and all the previous class recordings so far can be found here.

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