Egalitarianism

employees, it is crucial that the labour market provides them with their main source of income, and for the firms, their costs (and thus their profits) are also based on the labour market setting wages. Australia has historically had a tradition of egalitarianism, and in their chase for equality and trying to ensure fair outcomes for all, Australia created protections to supposedly help everyone by ensuring high wages for workers and stopping employers from having too much power over their…

are extremely emphasized to the extent that it overshadows the essential utopian features. This shows that there is a thin line between an orderly society and a repressive dystopian one. Historically, utopia has been considered by its values of egalitarianism: It should have no class…

state of things is achieved, people will simply contribute all the labor that they can (because it’s a “vital need”) and the society will duly distribute to them according to their needs. Moreover for Marx the only way of achieving this sort of egalitarianism is by the workers seizing the means of production. A just society cannot be actually achieved purely by fiddling with how goods are distributed. As Marx sees it, the distribution is “a feature of the mode of production itself” (Marx,…

The Omniscient Indifferent Narrator Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is a satirical dystopian short story. The story starts by presenting a utopian future that sounds desirable to the reader. At the beginning of the story, everybody is finally “equal”, according to the narrator, due to the amendments of the constitution. As the reader keeps reading, even from the third line of the first paragraph, the reader might start to find faults in the society and begin to feel curious about the story.…

Inequality is an undoubtedly prominent aspect of society today. Injustice can be found between those of different races, genders, nationalities, and economic and political statuses. One might begin to wonder: how did such imbalance arise in people who are, in essence, very much the same? In his Discourse on the Origin, and the Foundation of Inequality Among Men, Jean-Jacque Rousseau discusses his theories about the sources of inequality in humankind. He, along with other authors, has much…

songs. My goal will be to mirror the analysis I just made of these super well respected works of American cannon, and show the similarities with these songs. So for each song, I will point to messages of individual rights, lists of grievances, egalitarianism, calls to revolution etc. Then, I will talk about how both caused volatile reactions from those in power, speaking on the FBI’s interaction with NWA, and Yasiin Bey’s protest departure from the United…

Rawls and Nozick: Justice as a Fair Inequality or Entitled Right? Distributive justice is the economic framework within a society which determines the distribution of goods amongst its members. How goods should be distributed and to whom have been interpreted by John Rawls and Robert Nozick, two contemporary philosophers that share the belief that there is no practical form of equal distribution of goods within society, but disagree on what constitutes a true distributive justice when taking…

First, white civil servants conducted semi-diplomatic relations with Native American delegates, offering American material goods to exact payments of vast territory that would ameliorate the inconvenient differences between white and native social structures. Secondly, indigenous translators humored white functionaries to gain prestige and influence through translation by preserving indigenous linguistic traditions. Thirdly, Southern slaves reworked their presence within spiritual spaces…

A man, restrained, entrapped, and excluded to the metaphorical table; restrained from enjoying the luxuries provided to other people in many ways, this is what the Narrator in Invisible man experiences and accepted as fact at one point. The world at the time, was filled with the false narrative of supremacy in race, lacking justice for those who were considered faulty. The Narrator denounces the injustice of the indoctrinated conformity to white supremacy through the knowledge that he gained…

the question of the relationship between farmers and upper class elitists. The first chapter also is able to connect back to Sellers’ point about contradictions during this time period. He presents the contradictions in Republicanism and rural egalitarianism that create a “…generation’s climactic struggle over American destiny” (33). Sellers choice in structure and organization provide a clear understanding of the chronological order of events presented…