The Qeustion of Equality

Its a fact! Very very good! The Question of Equality         Equality is the fundamental demand of the rebellion of the poor: it should be the ideological force behind the new society. How this egalitarian demand is understood is crucial to the distinction between the Democratic Revolution and the Marxist-Jacobin Revolution.         The Marxist answer to the egalitarian demand is the dictatorship of the proletariat, which Maurice Duverger shrewdly describes as an accurate continuation of the Jacobin …

…something that cannot be taken away from them in the name of the civil liberties of the old establishment. Having known political equality, all the freedoms, let alone the freedom of expression, which were distorted in the old society, our people henceforth demand that all freedoms be considered under one supreme criterion: how will they serve the cause of the rebellion of the poor.         Evidently, the egalitarian principle requires a reconstruction of our political values.