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An Evaluation on Karl Marx’s View on Social Policy

  • Korea Social Policy Review
  • Abbr : KSPR
  • 2016, 23(3), pp.1-15
  • DOI : 10.17000/kspr.23.3.201609.1
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Social Policy
  • Research Area : Social Science > Sociology > Medical / Welfare / Social policy
  • Published : September 30, 2016

Cho Young Hoon 1

1동의대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article aims to find Karl Marx’s views on the social policy and to reorganize them into a systematic social policy theory. His views on the welfare state are scattered in diverse works including Capital and Communist Manifesto, and are very complicated and sometimes contradictory. This article further aims to reinterpret his contradictory views on social policy and to attempt to show what he really meant on social policy. By so doing, this article will contribute to re-establishing Karl Marx’s status in the field of social policy study. Karl Marx’s social policy theory is one of the least researched area in social policy, although several Western scholars introduce and evaluate his views on the welfare state in social policy textbooks and articles. In particular, it is very difficult to find a work attempting to reorganize and reinterpret Karl Marx’s contradictory views on social policy. In this regard, this article deserves a significant academic concern.

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