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| Source | Jim Devine |
| Date | 99/12/13/12:28 |
| At 02:05 PM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I go by the old stand-bys: freedom without equality is just privilege. >Socialism is the pursuit of the universalization of privilege where freedom >is privilege made universal. In fact, the fight for democratic reform has >always been one of taking privileges of the elite -- their definition of >freedom -- and making them universal. I'd go further, adding a key point. In simple terms, the "bourgeois revolution" was about making political power so that it wasn't inheritable. The socialist revolution will make economic power so that it's not inheritable. |
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