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All sorts of middle level employees and intermediate strata and, at times, even coordinators, will be welcomed to humanist movements. But it will be critical to ensure that humanist movements and their union and council organizations have working class aims as their constant priority, even as they also oppose racism, sexism, and authoritarianism.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
Just as the traits associated with good are vulnerable to the traits associated with evil for organisms living in social groups, normal cells are vulnerable to cancer cells within multicellular organisms. In the same way groups of morally virtuous individuals outcompete groups crippled by selfishness, multicellular organisms free of cancer outcompete multicellular organisms riddled by cancer. The eternal struggle between good and evil takes place within our own bodies and has since the origin of multicellular organisms roughly a billion years ago.
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
A degree of economic inequality has tended to be seen as an inherent part of a healthy meritocracy. Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke provided this succinct explanation of the benefits of inequality: “Without the possibility of unequal outcomes tied to differences in skill and effort, the economic outcomes tied to differences in behavior would be eliminated, and our market-based economy—which encourages productive activity primarily through the promise of financial reward—would function far less effectively” (quoted in Page and Jacobs 2009, 15). __The trouble is that over the last thirty years inequality has grown ever greater, while the promise of upward mobility has come to seem more and more of a mirage.__
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
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