Of Marx and Makers: an Historical Perspective on Generative Justice
Ron Eglash
Reviewer A:
Please, comment on the most relevant aspects (positive points and areas to improve) of the reviewed article.
This article clearly articulates the foundations of alienation of value from Adam Smith to Karl Marx. It argues that Marx did not fully explore the implications of unalienated value in indigenous cultures or from non-human generation. These are the roots of a generative justice. While the historical intellectual conceptions are well laid out, the theory of generative justice seems brief. For those unfamiliar with the generative justice discourse. The case study is intriguing, but perhaps not enough detail to fully appreciate how the circuits of unalienated value generation actually work.
Would you suggest any changes or make any recommendations to improve the quality of the article?
I recommend adding a more depth to the explanation of generative justice and to the illustrative case study, as well as raising critical questions of how generative justice is emerging and challenges to its further development. If more is added to the second half, perhaps the historical detail could be shortened.
Recommendation: Accept Submission
Reviewer B:
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El texto es una buena introducción al próximo número especial. Solo debe corregir varios errores de citación y referencias de acuerdo a APA.
Recommendation: Revisions Required
Reviewer C:
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It's a quite charming and wittig introduction to Generative Justice trend grounded on a historical review of orthodox Marxian theory which, as indicated below, it could be argued and contested from other critical readings and perspectives (as I briefly suggest below). I also find quite challenging the author's use of indigenous cultural practices and knowledge, far more attractive and convincing that his presentist critique, often shallow, of Marx and the URSS outcomes and fate. Beside my coincidence with the authors in the ideological grounds, I do believe his understanding and critique of Marx, and some of Marx's ideas implementation in the Soviet Union, is rather simplistic and biased. An anarchist position statement can be also fair with the past and, namely, with the conditions of possibility of these different pasts, and most importantly with the way from where we retrieve that history chunks - traduttore tradittore!! ;-)
Would you suggest any changes or make any recommendations to improve the quality of the article?
I do believe that the article will gain in clarity by cutting off or reducing the part of Marx critique. In doing so it could go in futher deepth into the main idea and principle of Generative Justice. It could do so by connecting the notion of Generative Justice with all the differente trends and social/consumption movements which are more focused on cycle C, as indicated in pg. 15. It is a shame that the text does not developed these connections which at the end of the day is what really an introduction as this one on GJ, in my opinion, would be expected to do.
Recommendation: Revisions Required
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