Liberal democracy and its slippages
By: Mukhi, Harbans.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Description: p.213-17.Subject(s): Liberalism
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: In some important ways, human history has been a site for repeated assertion of egalitarian urges, manifest in religious, as well as secular ideologies. On the other hand, individual acquisitiveness in the context of socialised production has resulted in encompassing inequalities, yet this has been the driving force for change. Karl Marx envisaged an alternative in the abolition of private property and complete socialisation of production and distibution of wealth, he also visualised technology increasingly displacing human labour in the process of economic production. While his latter vision is coming true in some measure, the substitution of the denial of the self for society as motor for productin has proved a disaster. Does the experience, however, terminate the search for an alternative to personal acquisition as the guide for economic and social development?
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In some important ways, human history has been a site for repeated assertion of egalitarian urges, manifest in religious, as well as secular ideologies. On the other hand, individual acquisitiveness in the context of socialised production has resulted in encompassing inequalities, yet this has been the driving force for change. Karl Marx envisaged an alternative in the abolition of private property and complete socialisation of production and distibution of wealth, he also visualised technology increasingly displacing human labour in the process of economic production. While his latter vision is coming true in some measure, the substitution of the denial of the self for society as motor for productin has proved a disaster. Does the experience, however, terminate the search for an alternative to personal acquisition as the guide for economic and social development?
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