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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 [...]

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”.

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 [...]

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.