Emancipación de los derechos humanos: Capitalismo y el bien común

Margot E. Salomon

Authors

Margot E. Salomon London School of Economics and Political Science, Reino Unido https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5221-4075

Keywords:

capitalism, political economy, property, social and economic rights, transformative international human rights law

Abstract

This article begins with a study of the political economy of welfare capitalism to demonstrate how the private quest for profit was never going to be undermined by the advance of socio-economic rights. Contrary to the conventional view among human rights lawyers, capital draws power from its rights or welfarism. It is in recognizing the role that socio-economic rights play in serving capitalism that the field of international law concerned with structurally transformative human rights can begin to explore how socio-economic rights inhibit alternative forms of social organization. This work then turns to recovering property rights through a study of recent evictions and housing rights case law of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that problematizes structural inequities and calls the financialized capitalist system into question. Next this work investigates radical legal positivism in international indigenous rights jurisprudence for how it transcends the private ownership of indigenous lands and control over the means of production. The social function of property rights is then revisited and extended, drawing to a close an article that unearths how socio-economic rights might yet emancipate people from capitalist property relations, alter the underlying structure of the economy, and, in time, sever its concordance with the capitalist welfare state.

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Margot E. Salomon, London School of Economics and Political Science, Reino Unido

Profesora de Derecho, London School of Economics and Political Science, Facultad de Derecho, Reino Unido.

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