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100			_aMukhi, Harbans
245			_aLiberal democracy and its slippages
260			_c2002
300			_ap.213-17
362			_a19 Jan
520			_aIn 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?
650			_aLiberalism
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a51110
999			_c51110 _d51110