Un soplo de Marx y un aire de socialismo en Marshall
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2018
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Es conocida la preocupación de Alfred Marshall –al menos autoproclamada– por las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores, la pobreza o la desigualdad extrema, así como sus simpatías hacia los movimientos asociacionistas obreros y sus líderes, con quienes compartió amistad, reuniones, inquietudes filosóficas y hasta políticas. En este ensayo me propongo aclarar y determinar qué posiciones y propuestas defendió Alfred Marshall; hasta qué punto mantuvo ideas o puntos de vista socialistas y qué cambios o evoluciones experimentaron. Y, finalmente, si dichas posiciones o ideas permiten considerarlo un teórico puramente abstracto y alejado de cuestiones morales; un victoriano conservador, y hasta retrógrado; o un reformador socialista, un redistribuidor, tal vez más impetuoso en su juventud, que nos permita contemplarlo como un intervencionista.
Alfred Marshall’s self-proclaimed concern about workers living conditions, poverty or extreme inequality is well known, as well as his sympathies towards workers’ associationist movements and their leaders, with whom he shared friendship, meetings, philosophical and even political worries. In this article, I intend to clarify and determine what positions and proposals Alfred Marshall defended; to what extent did he maintain socialist ideas and how did his ideas change? And, in the last analysis, if these positions allow us to consider him a purely abstract theorist, far away from moral questions; a Victorian conservative, even a retrograde; or a socialist reformer, a redistributor, perhaps more impetuous in his youth, allowing us to see him as an interventionist.
Alfred Marshall’s self-proclaimed concern about workers living conditions, poverty or extreme inequality is well known, as well as his sympathies towards workers’ associationist movements and their leaders, with whom he shared friendship, meetings, philosophical and even political worries. In this article, I intend to clarify and determine what positions and proposals Alfred Marshall defended; to what extent did he maintain socialist ideas and how did his ideas change? And, in the last analysis, if these positions allow us to consider him a purely abstract theorist, far away from moral questions; a Victorian conservative, even a retrograde; or a socialist reformer, a redistributor, perhaps more impetuous in his youth, allowing us to see him as an interventionist.