Matt Bruenig — Robert Nozick Agrees With Ta-Nehisi Coates

Earlier, I explained that libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick agrees with Thomas Piketty. Like Piketty, Nozick feared the entrenched wealth of patrimonial capitalism and proposed steep taxes (inheritances taxes in Nozick's case) to break it up. In the aftermath of Ta-Nehisi Coates' new piece on reparations, it might be worth pointing out that Nozick also thinks reparations is pretty cool.

Under Nozick's theory of entitlement (i.e. theory of what should belong to who), there are three principles. The first principle is justice in acquisition (i.e. initial acquisition must be just). He fails to show how this is possible, but we'll leave point that aside here. The second principle is justice in transfer (i.e. subsequent trading must be just). And the final principle is rectification of injustice. It is that last principle where reparations comes in....
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Robert Nozick Agrees With Ta-Nehisi Coates 
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