http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200308-214629-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-the-value-of-human-rights/ On the Value of Human Rights Hoffmann, Florian eng 2020-03-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Human Rights Valuation Value Values Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Florian Hoffmann analyses the left critique of rights and Marx's account of the function of liberal rights as both a necessary legal infrastructure for the 'free' market exchange of commodified labour – and, hence, as an element of the system underlying the constitution and extraction of surplus value - as well as an ideological configuration that obscures the inequality of the (rights-based) exchange relationship through the semblance of equal rights. Is this really all there is to rights in/under capitalism? And are there sufficiently strong and evident alternatives so as to obviate rights (activism) all together?