How to Interpret Labor-based Human Rights From the Perspective of Marxist Value Philosophy

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10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.275How to use a DOI?

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value philosophy; human rights; labor; labor-based human rights

Abstract

Labor falls under the category of social existence while human rights fit into the category of social consciousness. Unlike the human rights deriving directly from the thought of God-based natural rights, labor-based human rights need a sequence of intermediary transitions on the path of interpretation to be possible. According to value philosophy, labor constructs the useful value relation and purposeful value relation. In the social existence level, productivity is included in the useful value system and production relations are part of the purposeful value system. In the field of social consciousness, both political and ideological superstructures belong to the value system constructed by labor. Therefore, labor has constructed the relations of law at the class level and national level. Labor is the source of rights, which is the very concrete reflection of the labor value system in the superstructure. As recognized by law, human rights are, in form, the product built by all classes through labor; and in content, they as an ideology reflect the value relation between man and nature as well as between man and man. Therefore, it can be said that human rights come from labor.

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