Single Idea 21016

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights]

Full Idea

My approach rejects the distinction, common in the human rights movement, between 'first-generation rights' (political and civil) and 'second-generation rights' (economic and social). The second group are preconditions of the first group.

Gist of Idea

Political and civil rights are not separate from economic and social rights

Source

Martha Nussbaum (Creating Capabilities [2011], 3)

Book Reference

Nussbaum,Martha C.: 'Creating Capabilities' [Belknap Harvard 2013], p.67


A Reaction

[last sentence compressed] This sounds like the sort of point Marx argued for. Nowadays it is feminists who make this point most strongly.