Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals): The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism - Hardcover

Dixon, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415571022 ISBN 13: 9780415571029

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415571022
• ISBN 13: 9780415571029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124