The Question Of Equality
Beginning of paper
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 egali ....
Middle of paper
.... ours, in which the rich are too few and the poor
too many, the Marxist-Jacobinist approach has a ringing appeal. With the term
proletariat, one simply substitutes the poor. By "expropriating the
expropriators," or eradicating the rich, equality is achieved with one bold
stroke.
The trouble with this formulation, however, is that the dictator-
proletariat is itself dictated upon by an all-powerful Party, while even among
the poor there is a hierarchy of classes, beginning with the "advanced ....
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