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Equality, Rights and Community: A Long Term Perspective

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Present-day political ideas to fight inequality are mostly based on a logic of productivity and redistribution. While taxes on wages and on returns on capital dominate the political debate, alternative political imaginaries like the basic income or the commons are hardly taken seriously. In an attempt to transcend the current framework, this chapter will trace its historical origins in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century and reveal the alternative conceptions of inequality which have been eclipsed as it developed. While late medieval and early modern communal ideas fall short of providing political ground for modern alternative theories (due to the absence of basic ideas about natural rights and universal equality) the very emergence of equality in terms of universal rights will be shown to explain the impossibility to escape the present-day logic of redistribution.

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De Munck, B. (2021). Equality, Rights and Community: A Long Term Perspective. In: Levrau, F., Clycq, N. (eds) Equality . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54310-5_3

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