Callum MacRae
@czmacrae.bsky.social
Political philosopher. Postdoc @ ROBOCRIM, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University. https://callumzmacrae.owlstown.net
Great opportunity to join our fantastic team at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Feel free to message me if you have questions about living in Krakow/UJ/the project.
Kamil Mamak@kamilmamak.bsky.social · last mo.🔍 Postdoc opening on my ERC project ROBOCRIM. Looking for someone with experience in psychology / experimental philosophy / experimental jurisprudence 3 years, full-time, ~€3,585–4,375/month gross. 9 October 2026 Link euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/458798
Happy to have this paper out in Res Publica, available open-access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Should Relational Egalitarians be Committed to Equal Power? - Res Publica
This article engages with two prominent defenses of unequal power from the standpoint of social equality, by Daniel Viehoff (2019) and Ryan Cox (2022), which aim to debunk the Constitution Claim, or t...
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I reviewed @jkandiyali.bsky.social's terrific new book for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. As I hope the review communicates, I strongly recommend the book to anyone interested in Marx, the politics of work, political and social philosophy, etc!
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3mo agoKarl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the idea that people flourish by meeting each other’s needs.
terrific review of @jkandiyali.bsky.social's book *Flourishing Together* from @czmacrae.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/06/kand...
Socialism Requires Work That Is Meaningful, Mutual, and Free
Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the ide...
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Many thanks to @czmacrae.bsky.social for this very generous review of my book for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/06/kand...
Socialism Requires Work That Is Meaningful, Mutual, and Free
Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the ide...
jacobin.com
Thrilled to have this new paper—"Towards A Rawlsian Theory of Productive Justice"—out in Free & Equal (responding to Stanczyk's terrific 2012 paper "Productive Justice"): freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/2...
Towards A Rawlsian Theory of Productive Justice
Many political philosophers believe that freedom of occupational choice rules out both using legal means to force people to work and holding individuals under a moral duty to serve in socially useful ...
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Fascinating essay by Callum MacRae @czmacrae.bsky.social on the APA Blog, on economic democracy & the development of Community Wealth Building @communitywealth.bsky.social @democracycollab.bsky.social, looking in detail at the exciting new push on CWB in Poland. blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/11/d...
Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland | Blog of the APA
In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being denied a democratic say when it comes to our political systems, so shoul...
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Very pleased to be able to share this brief piece for the APA's Perspectives on Democracy series, on community wealth building initiatives in Poland!: blog.apaonline.org/2026/02/11/d...
Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland | Blog of the APA
In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being denied a democratic say when it comes to our political systems, so shoul...
blog.apaonline.org
Very pleased to have this piece out with the fab @notesfrompoland.bsky.social, on the remarkable rise of participatory budgeting in contemporary Poland.
Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 12mo agoPoland has become a global leader in participatory budgeting, through which local residents decide how some public money is spent. Over half of all such schemes in Europe are found in Poland, and they are quietly transforming its cities, towns and villages, writes Callum MacRae.
Happy to announce that my new paper 'Is nondomination a social ideal?' is now available open-access, here — onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... As ever, many thanks to those who helped me with it along the way!
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Happy to share a new paper 'Luck Egalitarianism, Exploitation, and the Normative Foundations of Socialism' out in Moral Philosophy and Politics. Available here, Open Access: www.degruyter.com/document/doi.... Many thanks to the various people who helped with it along the way!
Luck Egalitarianism, Exploitation, and the Normative Foundations of Socialism
According to a prominent account, the central normative commitments of socialism are a luck egalitarian principle of equality and a principle of community or solidarity. The model has a number of attr...
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Most contemporary discussions of markets vs planning are too stark and simplistic. To think seriously for the future, we need a richer and more nuanced approach. Angus Hebenton & I make a start here: engaging with the unduly neglected work of Meade, Holland, and Wootton. ejpe.org/journal
