The left’s defining value is equality, not liberty, contra totalitarian misuse

Evidence

As Norbeno Bobbio reminds w, it is the idea of equality which provides the backbone of the left vision while the right - in the name of liberty - has always condoned diverse forms of inequality. The fact that a certain type of egalitarian ideology has been used to ;wtify totalitarian forms of politics in no way forces w to relinquish the struggle for equality. What a left-wing project today requires is to envisage this struggle for equality that has always been at the core of social democracy in a way that takes account of the multiplicity of social relations in which inequality needs to be challenged. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 539

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The left lost by framing freedom and fairness as a forced choice — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 104; Freedom and equality form a fundamental, unresolved antinomy — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2567; The abstract ideal of human equality secretly serves totalitarian homogenization — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 117 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The abstract ideal of human equality secretly serves totalitarian homogenization #responds-to (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 117
• Freedom and equality form a fundamental, unresolved antinomy #qualifies (0.82) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2567
• The left lost by framing freedom and fairness as a forced choice #complicates (0.78) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 104
• Fascist egalitarianism is repressive, not liberating #exemplifies (0.74) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 199
• The left historically centered emancipation, not statism #corroborates (0.72) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 96