Activist-led Education and Egalitarian Social Change?
Activist-led Education and Egalitarian Social Change?
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活动家主导的教育和平等主义的社会变革？
DOI：
10.1111/jopp.12247
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Shelley C
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作者：
Shelley C
经济不平等被广泛认为是我们这个时代最重要的问题之一。极端的经济不平等破坏了民主制度，因为最富有的人对政治结果施加了越来越多的控制，并导致社会分层，这对最贫穷的人的精神健康造成了严重的影响。经济不平等也在推动持续的生态灾难方面发挥了关键作用，因为最富有的人的消费习惯往往集中在碳密集型活动上，并限制了最富有的少数人获得最有意义的工作和最好的健康和教育资源的机会。[1]一些政治哲学家最近提出，要从根本上重塑自由民主国家的现有基本结构，以确保所有公民在政治、社会和经济上的平等得到实质性的提高。例如，威廉·埃德蒙森（William Edmundson）和大卫·施韦卡特（David Schweickart）为市场社会主义体系辩护，在这种体系中，构成经济“制高点”的企业由工人民主控制，这些企业要么由工人直接拥有，要么由国家租赁给他们。艾伦托马斯和其他人提出了一种财产所有制民主，在这种民主中，国家努力确保公民对资本的私人所有权大致平等。2
ECONOMIC inequality is widely regarded as one of the most important issues of our time. Extreme economic disparities destabilize democracy—as the richest exert increasing control over political outcomes—and lead to forms of social stratification which take a severe toll on the mental wellbeing of the worstoff. Economic inequality also plays a key role in driving the ongoing ecological catastrophe, as the spending habits of the wealthiest tend to be concentrated in carbon-intensive activities, and limits opportunities to access the most meaningful work and the best health and educational resources to the richest few. 1 Some political philosophers have recently proposed radically reshaping the existing basic structure of liberal democracies as a way to secure substantial increases in political, social, and economic equality for all citizens. William Edmundson and David Schweickart, for example, have defended systems of market socialism, in which the firms which make up the “commanding heights” of the economy are democratically controlled by their workers and either directly owned by them or leased to them by the state. And Alan Thomas and others have proposed a property-owning democracy, in which the state works to ensure roughly equal private ownership of capital among its citizens. 2