[ExI] Homelessness (was Re: Social right to have a living)

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 19:48:12 UTC 2011


On 6 July 2011 20:04, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Stefano Vaj wrote:
>>...US liberals - who, btw, used to be ferocious Social Darwinists just a
> century or two ago...
>
> A subtle aside: we know what is meant by the term "social Darwinist," one
> who believes in a hardline don't feed the poor because they just overbreed
> sort of person.

Why, once upon a time, Social Darwinism was a "progressive" POV where
the main concern was to fight the fact that upper, parasitic classes
existed that were very much protected from social competition. Such as
landed gentry, rentiers, etc.

So, S-D was mainly about élite circulation, and some socialists such
as Julien Sorel were speaking of  new proletarian aristocracies taking
over the power from "weak", "misfit", decadent, old ruling classes...

Then, at a point in time, S-D strangely started being perceived as a
defence of status quo.

>> ... libertarians accept that shareholders in private corporations touch
> dividends, possibly very high dividends, even when they do absolutely
> nothing...
>
> Shareholders are doing something.  They are keeping their money in the
> company in which they are shareholders.

What would prevent us from consider citizens as "shareholders" of
their own political community? After all, States were established
through conquest, and they still own assets...

-- 
Stefano Vaj




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