By LJP The desire for a more equal society, satirised in Orwell’s novel, has been the driving force behind numerous political movements: from communist revolutionaries and pro-democracy campaigners to feminists, civil rights activists and advocates of VAT on school fees. Equality is a fundamental value in socialism and – in a different guise – liberalism,Continue reading “Equality”
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What is Freedom?
By LJP (Answer: there is no single answer) Lewis Carroll’s character Humpty Dumpty claimed that ‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean’. Such an approach to language seems worryingly commonplace in political discussions of freedom. The wide variations in its meaning, deployed in the service of various (oftenContinue reading “What is Freedom?”