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SOVEREIGNTY AND NATURAL RIGHTS 571
resources of the State as will enable an equal opportunity
for material well-being to be accorded to all. In the
last resort, therefore, he has a right to revolt against the
capitalist State in the interests of economic justice. It is
in these terms that, I imagine, a Marxist socialist would
translate into the language of natural rights the distinctive
contentions of his school of thought. In fact, however,
Marxist socialists do not normally use the language of
rights. Since, as I have already noted, the economic issues
raised by Socialism, and particularly by Marxist Socialism,
occupy $n increasing share of the attention of modern
political theorists, the problem of natural rights has
receded into the background. When the issues which it
raises are discussed, they
are discussed in terms of a
different phraseology. Thus the problem of natural rights,
like the problem of Sovereignty, points us forward to a
discussion of Marxist theory. To this discussion Chapter
XVII is devoted.
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