reparations & exploitation

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Mar 13 14:04:46 PST 2001



>>> seamus at accessone.com 03/13/01 04:32PM >>>


> If it's axiomatic, one can't argue it. But I suggest you look at Marx's
> critique of equal material rewards in the Critique of the Gotha Program.
> That creates what he calls "a right of inequality." It's self-defeating:
> treating people equally materially is not treating the equally, because it
> ignores the ways in which they are individual.--jks

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And there you have it, the dialectical synthesis/Buddhist interpenetration of opposites. We're both equal and unequal and thus neither. Dystopia is best; let's hear it for leximin unfreedom!

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CB: And affirmative action, ( with a dash of practical-critical activity).



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