Thoughts on John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism

Recently read an interesting discussion of Marxism and Ralwsianism by Professor Joseph Heath. Some interesting narrative So what happened to all this ferment and excitement, all of the high-powered theory being done under the banner of Western Marxism? It’s the damndest thing, but all of those smart, important Marxists and neo-Marxists, doing all that high-powered work, became liberals. Every…