[lbo-talk] post analytical Marxist era/ post liberal era

[andie nachgeborenen]

Well, I am a socialist as well as a liberal, so I
agree that the best _social order_ involves a right to
a job or income. You can call that a political right
if you want, there are arguments to be made for doing
so, although I don't call it political but social and
economic myself; but whatever terms you use we agree
that a right to a job or income is a real right. Btw,
Milton Friedman thought it was, if not a right, then
sound policy.

--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
wrote:


>  andie nachgeborenen :
> 
>     "Political liberalism is the view that the best
> form of government
>     involves universal suffrage, competitive
> elections, and extensive
>     political and civil liberties."
> 
> 
> ^^^^^
> CB: We now know that the political liberal view is
> fundamentally
> deficient. The best form of government  involves 
> GUARANTEE OF A RIGHT
> TO A JOB OR INCOME, universal suffrage, competitive
> elections, and
> extensive  political and civil liberties.  The "best
> form of government"
> you describe fails to take account of the thinking
> and experience of the
> last 150 years. Your definition was fresh in the
> period of Jefferson. It
> was superceded in the period of Marx. We've been in
> a post-liberal era
> for longer than in a post-Marxist era. Your
> definition is a "back to the
> future" one. Your definition is idealist political
> thinking. Materialist
> political thinking has overcome idealist political
> thinking as the
> best.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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