In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central idea of the first approach is isonomy: the exclusion of any discrimination on the basis that legal rights are afforded equally to all people. The central idea of the second approach is rather to acknowledge and address a broader spectrum of known inequalities. Such an approach, Bellanca argues, allows the pursuit of pluralism as well as a more re-alistic and complex view of what equality is. Here he analyzes the main eco-nomic and political institutions of an isocratic society, and in so doing, effec-tively outlines how a utopian society can be structurally and anthropologically realized. This book is ideal reading for an audience interested in the critique of contem-porary capitalism through a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and leftist libertarianism.

Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality / Bellanca, N.. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. 1-214. [10.1007/978-3-030-00695-2]

Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality

Bellanca, N.
2019

Abstract

In the twentieth century there were two great political and social paradigms, the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist delineations). The central idea of the first approach is isonomy: the exclusion of any discrimination on the basis that legal rights are afforded equally to all people. The central idea of the second approach is rather to acknowledge and address a broader spectrum of known inequalities. Such an approach, Bellanca argues, allows the pursuit of pluralism as well as a more re-alistic and complex view of what equality is. Here he analyzes the main eco-nomic and political institutions of an isocratic society, and in so doing, effec-tively outlines how a utopian society can be structurally and anthropologically realized. This book is ideal reading for an audience interested in the critique of contem-porary capitalism through a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and leftist libertarianism.
2019
978-3-030-00694-5
1
214
Bellanca, N.
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