>On the contrary, I would argue that very radical social change *can*
>flow from the "self-evident" truth of the Declaration of Independence,
>e.g.: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humankind is
>created equal and hence entitled to live in not merely an
>equal-opportunity society but an *equal-outcome* one."
Well it sure as heck didn't have a self-evident ring to it back then, ey? The equal outcome part sounds beautiful, but tell me, once you get rid of the means-focused ideology of the capitalist model of distributive justice, what exactly do you propose in order to determine *equitable* and/or *equal* outcomes? Workplace democracy? Is that it? Well I think you should think long and hard about exactly why that might be a problem and NOT quite adequate in the least.
Kelley