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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 Ref
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.