"freedom w/o equality."

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:05 PM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I go by the old stand-bys: freedom without equality is just privilege.
>Socialism is the pursuit of the universalization of privilege where freedom
>is privilege made universal.  In fact, the fight for democratic reform has
>always been one of taking privileges of the elite -- their definition of
>freedom -- and making them universal.

I'd go further, adding a key point. In simple terms, the "bourgeois
revolution" was about making political power so that it wasn't inheritable.
The socialist revolution will make economic power so that it's not
inheritable.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx & http://clawww.lmu.edu/~JDevine