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Egalitarianism On Its Own

In: Equality, Participation, Transition

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  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

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Seven decades ago Branko Horvat was born into a world where dramatic economic inequalities were soon to come under confident assault by egalitarian movements of the left. The moral case for egalitarian redistribution was clear, and its practical implementation commanded wide support among workers and the less well off. But radical egalitarianism today is the orphan of a defunct socialism. The unruly and abandoned child of the liberal enlightenment had been taken in by socialism in the mid-nineteenth century. Protected and overshadowed by its new foster parent, radical egalitarianism was relieved of the burden of arguing its own case. As socialism’s foster child, equality would be the by-product of an unprecedented post-capitalist order, not something to be defended morally and promoted politically on its own terms in the world as it is.

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  • Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis, 2000. "Egalitarianism On Its Own," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Vojmir Franičević & Milica Uvalić (ed.), Equality, Participation, Transition, chapter 3, pages 27-47, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52309-8_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523098_3
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    1. Danijela Dolenec & Mislav Žitko, 2016. "Exploring Commons Theory for Principles of a Socialist Governmentality," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 48(1), pages 66-80, March.

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