Why equality is unhelpful as a political goal
July 13, 2018
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as posted by the channelI'd like to repeat that I'm not against using "equality" in political slogans, but this works for the most part only among people who already have similar political goals and therefore know on some intuitive level what specific types of equality the other person is talking about.
Thanks to my friend Finn for reading out the Engels quote.
Recommended reading:
"Critique of the Gotha Programme" by Karl Marx ()
"Philosophy and Real Politics" by Raymond Geuss - Part II Failures of Realism, Equality
Anarchopac's video
I quoted Engels from "Engels to August Bebel In Zwickau ()
And Angela Davis from "Are Prisons Obsolete?", page 75
Here is the full Jordan Peterson interview:
I used clips from "The Young Karl Marx" (2017), as well as:
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