Housing Approaches in New York City: 5 Points in a Long View:[1] The five points, in brief: Democratic government has to be big government Because of the size and hostility of big business Privacy has two meanings. One meaning is “personal,” private as opposed to “open.” It should be respected both by government and business. […]
Blog #84 – Big Business Requires Big Government, Contra Republicans and… In the current election debates a very unfortunate assumption has crept into many of the arguments, from those of Trump to those of the Republican party’s established conservatives, to the Hillary mainstream of the Democratic Party, and even sometimes into the Sanders campaign: the […]
Blog #82 – Is “Radical – Islam” all Islam? A Grammatical Confusion Is Made Political The trouble with Donald Trump’s use of the two words “radical” and “Islam” together is that he means them as a single noun: Radical-Islam. Not as an adjective describing one part of Islam, to differentiate it from another part, moderate […]
Blog #81e. – Towards Transformative Approaches to Unjust Inequality. Given that the conservative responses to unjust inequality essentially accept its existence, that the liberal does something to ameliorate the results of unjust inequalities but does not address their causes, and that the progressive response does even more, but both within severe limits that leave the […]
Blog #81d – Inequality: A Radical Response A Radical response, in a traditional fully socialist view, would approach inequality in a quite different way. It would define unjust inequality not in terms of the quantitative mal-distribution of the wealth of society but in terms of the source of that mal-distribution, economically in the exploitation of […]
Blog #81c – From Clinton Liberal to Sanders Progressive Responses Hillary Clinton’s over-all approach could be seen as a major example of the liberal approach to inequality, (see Blog #81b), and Bernie Sanders’ could then be seen is well on what might be called the progressive side of liberal, although stopping short of something more […]
Blog #81b: What’s the Answer? Economic or Racial? Conservative or Liberal? The debate on the Democratic side in the United States election campaign has seemed at times to be between answers addressing, on the one said , economic inequality (held to be Bernie Sanders view) and on the other, racial and ethnic disparities (Black Lives […]
