The Normative Perspective of Marx's Historical Materialism——On Allan Buchanan's'Anti-juridical'Interpretation of Marx's Justice Thoughts
Allan Buchanan believed that Marx affirmed the"critical role"of normative concepts and denied the"explanatory role",using the specific content of capitalist justice to criticize capitalism as unjust,and revised the conclusion of Tucker-Wood thesis.Furthermore,Buchanan proposed an"evaluative perspective of communism"based on the concept of universal human nature,explaining how communism is more just than capitalism from the factual perspective of anti-juridical conception.However,Buchanan inherited Wood's teleological and functionalist understanding of historical materialism,and the theoretical division of"internal criticism"and"external criticism"failed to break through the mold of Wood's theory,instead interpreted Marx's thought as utilitarian.This interpretation of"anti-juridical conceptions"to Marx's justice thought nominally draws a normative conclusion,misinterpreting Marx's criticism of the specific content of capitalist justice as a criticism of justice itself,and essentially ignoring the normative content of historical materialism itself.Marx's historical materialism not only contains a normative perspective,but also reconstructs the concept of justice itself and changes the essence of normativity based on criticizing the specific content of justice.
Allen BuchananjusticeTucker-Wood ThesisHistorical Materialism
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