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To summarize, in the period ‘after development’ — after the collapse of a plausible narrative in which the rising tide will lift all boats — a sense of entitlement, its entrenchment in law, and its articulation in political parties or movements will play a huge role in the politics of distribution that is of pressing concern to the ‘relative surplus population’ who cannot sustain themselves through their work.
After Development: Surplus Population and the Politics of Entitlement
Tania Murray Li
In the history of social thought and politics over the last few centuries, the fantasy of such revolutionary substitution has turned into a pretext for its opposite. If consequential change is unavailable, or if available too dangerous, what is left to do is to humanize a world that we despair of reimagining and remaking. Such is the character of contemporary social liberalism and social democracy.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
in many cases there were people farming the land that English colonisers wanted to take, just as in Ireland. In such cases, Locke claimed that what really counted for ownership was not simply the act of farming, but the improvement (i.e. intensification and profit-orientation) of the farming techniques.
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