Tag: Left
Equality and the Meaning of Wealth, Part 1
The concept of “wealth” is a recurrent theme in debates between the right and left: each side believes that their system has the most ethical way of managing wealth. The perspective we will defend here is our own – that of the left. First, it is essential to define “wealth”. As core premise of our [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2011 under Politics.
Tags: Equality, Freedom, Heylighen, Knowledge, Left, Meaning, Right, Satisfaction, Wealth
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A Fable of Left and Right
Politics, in the end, are ethics : the quest for the “common good” that defines politics presupposes an understanding of what is “good” and what is “bad”. And the current world, despite its obsession with “rationality”, still fundamentally takes into account moral ideals such as “security” and/or “freedom”, “equality” and/or “opportunity”.
Posted: December 15th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Debate, Ethics, Left, Political system, Right
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What Does Freedom Mean? Basically
Much has been written on the concept of “freedom”. And yet it remains vague, and different meanings of the word are often used within a single context. That is because people’s opinion of what freedom should be irremediably taint their use of the world. This post aims to explain the basics of any coherent principle [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Freedom, God, Justice, Left, Order, Poor, Rich, Right
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Alternate Path to a Political Ideal
For quite a while now, I have been thinking about what could constitute a realistic transitory system to reach anarcho-communism, while avoiding the need for the dictatorship/bloody revolution heralded by Marx as the easiest way to implement communism. Recent debates allowed me to develop what I believe to be such a system.
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under Politics.
Tags: Anarcho-communism, Consensus, Cooperatives, Left, Political system
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