Marx & Rawls vs. Nozick & the "Land Back" Left
Is justice about turning back the clock to some past distribution of property or creating a more equal society going forward?
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for Jacobin that generated quite a bit of intra-left controversy. It was my nineteenth article for the magazine on Israel/Palestine. I’ve gotten plenty of hate mail over the years for the first eighteen, but always from ardent Zionists. This was the first one that generated a fair amount of disagreement from people wh…