Open Democracy - 27 August 2014
It’s not hard to find a critic of the European Court of Human Rights these days. I have no intention, in this post, of joining this increasingly voluble choir of nationalists, fear-mongers and far right or authoritarian regimes. What I want to do is to approach the ECHR in the context of this series of articles on human rights and liberalism, in particular market liberalism, and ask whether Marx would have endorsed the Court as an ‘intrinsic human good’ for Europeans?
Could the ECHR have convinced Marx that it has succeeded in lifting
the veil on abstract rights masking substantive injustices as per his critique
of rights in Capital? Could it persuade
him it has fought against civil rights becoming a banner for liberal
egoism and individualism as
per On the Jewish Question?
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