Essay Archive - The Question of Equality
The Question of Equality
Equality is the fundamental demand of the rebellion of the poor: it
should be the ideological force behind the new society. How this egalitarian
demand is understood is crucial to the distinction between the Democratic
Revolution and the Marxist-Jacobin Revolution.
The Marxist answer to the egalitarian demand is the dictatorship of the
proletariat, which Maurice Duverger shrewdly describes as an accurate
continuation of the Jacobin theory of terror:
". . .Man is born but capitalism corrupts him: In order to destroy the
system of oppression, exploitation and alienation development by capitalism,
violence m....
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