interesting new republic article

[xatalantax]

on commonalities of political philosophy underlying various current issues.
not a good description really, but I'm not sure how to describe it both well and briefly:

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=scholar&s=levy091703

Comments

[siajara.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, I am glad I read that article. A short comment on his point that all the philosophies involve exploitation of individuals for the common good - of course they do. Any society which uses people as 'resources' cannot claim anything other than exploitation. I personally have always hated (and found offensive) the term 'resources' applied to people, as though the useful aspects of a person could be mined out of them. We just tend to accept the term, and not admit to ourselves the implications of it.