Word: egalitarians
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...Russian understanding of injustice. As a popular maxim puts it, if a Russian peasant discovers that his neighbor has two pigs and he has only one, he would rather see his neighbor's extra pig slaughtered than raise a second one of his own. Such crude but firmly ingrained egalitarian ideas predate communism. They help explain why the average Russian is so suspicious of the new breed of street entrepreneur who hawks everything from bathtub fixtures to brassieres on city sidewalks. He welcomes the sudden abundance, but he thinks it is extremely unfair that someone should make a living...
Perhaps I should explain the reason for the violence of my reaction. For 26 years I lived under a socialist system which claimed to be working towards that egalitarian society wherein each would give according to his or her abilities and take according to his or her needs. I refer of course to what is now called the failed ideology of communism, but was not long ago referred to as the red menace...
Kaus divides egalitarian sentiment into two major threads. Money egalitarianism seeks primarily to level differences in income. The "Civic Liberal" partisans of social egalitarianism, by contrast, don't care who makes how much , as long as people treat each other with respect...
...wake of World War I, four imperial monarchies -- Germany, Austria- Hungary, Turkey and Russia -- collapsed. Two figures emerged on the world stage almost simultaneously, each a professed egalitarian and internationalist, each claiming to have a vision for the new world order. One was Woodrow Wilson, the other Vladimir Lenin. The 20th century can be seen as a struggle between their legacies...
MORE THAN 25 years have passed since K. Gunnar Myrdal first wrote of the "American dilemma"--the conflict between America's democratic and egalitarian ideals and its treatment of racial minorities...