Word: egalitarianism
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...liberals as irrational and impractical; leftists are pilloried for prematurely rejecting all things that bear the mark of “the Man.” However, the radical critique of system-internal social change depends on a much more sophisticated argument than its detractors realize. According to the egalitarian, democratic principles that ground genuinely leftist projects, the type of political venture embodied by Obama and his ilk is dreadfully misguided. Because it relies on the logic of representation, the system-internal strategy endorses a conception of power that ultimately stultifies those it originally sought to serve. It expects...
According to Cornell professor William M. Lynn, nations that tip usually embrace materialism and status. Egalitarian-minded nations tend not to have robust tipping cultures. Furthermore, tip prevalence seems to be negatively related to the tax burden within a country. It’s harder to tip when more of your money is heading to the state...
...Livesey argues that understanding the Revolution is crucial to distinguishing how the more egalitarian European model for democracy differs from the Anglo-American...
...town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts her career on hold once she gets married," says Coontz. "It's part of an avalanche of evidence that marriage is being reconstructed for the first time in history as a marriage of equals...
...part and parcel of the harder left turn he's taken after his re-election, which has seen the nationalization of utility companies and oil ventures. But backers point to his proposals to reduce laborers' working hours and create new grassroots governing councils as proof of his more egalitarian "21st-century socialism...