Philosophy 1030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Progressive Tax
17 Dec 2017
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When communism feel, people believed liberal capitalism was the only option. The marxist left had been associated with the claim that not only should a socialist future displace the capitalist present, but that it must assuredly do so. Communism represented the culmination of one such trajectory: the fact that this is an essentially religious notion did not detract from its appeal to generations of secular progressives. After marx"s prognoses had lost all relevance, many social democrats as well as. Communists continued to insist on their fidelity to the master which provided the mainstream political left. Many believed that capitalism had laws that cannot be bent or broken and that there wasno point in interfering in its workings. Even if every conservative and reactionary regime were to implode, its public image hopelessly tarnished by corruption and incompetence, the politics of conservatism would survive intact as opposed to socialism. Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting.
