Social Justice and Equality
Political Theories and Sociology: State Control, Fairness, Opportunity, and Individual Freedom
It feels like the world has gone mad with cries of woke and transgender oppression. Almost everyone accepts the ideal of equality, yet everywhere we encounter inequality. And historically, there has not yet been any country that has achieved utopian equality regardless of its political structure or ideology. Close examination of the political, economic, and social arenas of nation states reveals the challenges in designing systems of equality, if that is even an objective. We are now in a period of instability and need a new replacement ideology to avoid total destruction and chaos. The global Satanist vision of totalitarian control of the planet and elimination of biological humans is a repugnant abomination and completely unacceptable!!
DO NOT CONSENT - CREATE A NEW IDEOLOGY INSTEAD
This essay provides an overview of equality from social justice, economic and political perspectives. It outlines the main elements of ideology and the types of inequality. It compares historical governance systems that support equality and inequality by liberal, socialist or Marxist doctrines. This provides examples of how different political ideologies view individual rights and the role of government. Inequality is NOT only a black verses white issue, because all skin colors and disadvantaged groups have been oppressed and enslaved at one time or another in various ways. I operate from the assumption that minimizing inequalities is desirable.
Definitions of Concepts
Equality: A moral belief that all human beings are the creation of God. A political ideal that all human beings have equal worth regardless of skin color, gender, race, nationality or wealth. A social construct of justice and treating everyone fairly and with respect. Natural inequalities are the result of different characteristics and abilities into which people are born. Social inequalities are created by society and can be changed, in contrast to natural differences that generally cannot be altered.
Social Justice: Social justice means fairness as it manifests in society. That includes fairness in healthcare, employment, housing, and more. In a socially-just society, human rights are respected and discrimination is not allowed to flourish. Social injustice of inequity is when actions are taken that infringe upon a group's rights, marginalizes their opportunities or treats them unfairly. It reflects a lack of human rights that are manifested in the daily lives of people.
Ideology: Ideology is a set of plausible ideas describing how society should be structured, describing an ideal or utopian image of a society or group. Sociologists define ideology as cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality. Politically, it is a set of governing and legal constructs that characterize a particular culture, such as in capitalism, communism, socialism, and Marxism. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy) and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism or socialism).
Oppression: A combination of prejudice and institutional powers creating a social system that regularly and severely discriminates against some groups and benefits other groups. Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment in the exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural norms. It may be overt or covert. It refers to discrimination when it targets or disproportionately impacts specific groups of people.
Slavery: Conventionally, slavery is a condition in which one human being is owned by another. A modern definition is when an individual is exploited by others, for personal or commercial gain. Whether tricked, coerced, or forced, they lose their freedom. This includes, but is not limited to, human trafficking, forced labor and debt bondage.
Concepts in Sociology
Importance of Ideology. Ideology is a fundamental concept in sociology. The struggles of inequality largely are determined by ideology in social, economic and political realms. Ideology exists within society, within groups, and between people. In addition to governments, it shapes a person's worldview with the recognition that there are various and competing ideologies operating in a society at any given time, some more dominant than others.
Ideology determines how we make sense of things. It provides an ordered view of the world, our place in it, and our relationship to others. As such, it is deeply important to the human experience, and typically something that people cling to and defend, whether or not they are conscious of doing so.
Ideology can be used to correct problems that have caused other structures to fail. It is a way of dealing with diverse opinions and ethnicities and identities. Inequality can either be viewed as an inevitable feature of social life or as something that can ideally be eliminated or reduced. Inequities are a consequence of political and social rules that can be reset.
Power to Control. Power over individuals and things go hand in hand. Things can refer to objects or persons (as slaves or serfs). Historically, dominant ruling classes were those with controlling powers over security, justice and property ownership. For centuries landlords ruled the people who lived and worked on the land. Political and judicial rights were usually restricted to property owners. Serfs were not allowed to leave the estate they labored on. This amounts to slavery or serfdom due to the power to rule over other people, removing their free will and sovereignty. Later, communism was introduced as another inequality system in which there is no mechanism for the majority of citizens to adopt different structures and organization to meet their needs, make decisions, or exercise individual rights.
Political Equality. Fundamental components of any political regime are the boundaries of its community and territory, mechanisms for decision making, and political rights of members. Laws identifying roles of leadership, governing parties, citizens versus non-citizens, and government officials are part of the political structure. Economic issues determined by the political system includes property ownership, taxation, corporate and labor laws, and inheritance laws.
Every society must explain who belongs to the human political community it comprises and who does not, what territory it governs under what institutions, and how it will organize its relations with other communities within the universal human community involved (Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology).
Political equity means that citizens of a society have equal power and influence, are treated equally and fairly, justice applies in the same way to everyone, and 1 person, 1 vote. A legal system can either protect or marginalize equality based on privileges, restrictions, property ownership, education and opportunities. It must justify inequalities.
Economic Equality. On one level of economic inequality, there are significant differences in the wealth, property or income between individual groups or classes. Since the 1980’s wide gaps between the top 1 percent and the bottom 50 percent grew dramatically in the US. A few global economic facts, according to the Human Development Report in 2005 are as follows:
1. The richest 50 individuals in the world have a combined income greater than that of the poorest 40 percent.
2. The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population receives only 5 percent of global income, while the richest 10 percent controls 54 percent of global income.
3. North America and Western Europe, with 25 percent of the population, owns 86 percent of the world’s industry, and consumes 90 percent of the world’s energy.
A second important contribution to inequity is property ownership of land, buildings, businesses, natural resources such as minerals and water, intellectual property and even human’s DNA.
Political systems differ on what individuals are allowed to own. For example, in the United States, Asians, indigenous Americans and Blacks were not allowed to own property or attend school until the mid 20th century. The Alien Land Laws were not overturned by the Supreme Court until 1952. Laws and regulations govern how property is bought and sold, utilized and transferred to the next generation. National borders, open borders and refugee immigration can cleave ethnic and religious groups who would benefit from property ownership or come together politically, thereby strengthening the hand of the rich and inequality of the commoners. The globalists use Satanist and technocratic ideology to justify owning everything.
Social Equality. Treating people with discrimination or privilege on the basis of race and gender are unacceptable to most people, excluding the Woke persons (they, them). But no society treats all people in exactly the same way under all conditions. The smooth functioning of society requires division of work and functions, so people often enjoy different status and rewards on account of it. At times these differences may appear acceptable or even necessary. For example, political, religious and military leaders are given special respect because of their rank. And disabled people are given extra understanding, latitude, and support, although with technology and medical advances, these same people may be able to function quite effectively in society.
Whether a difference is as a result of innate causes or socially generated is a helpful consideration in distinguishing inequality but is not always relevant, as in the discrimination of women as the “weaker” sex needing protection. Black people were considered by colonial masters to be of lesser intelligence, although better at manual labor and sports. These unjustified generalizations are exploited for the purpose of power and control over people.
Another problem arises when the distinctions and differences are debatable or cause harm to others. Not all people are equally successful in pursuit of careers, but that does not justify disrespect or an attitude of superiority. Manual work tends to be less valued than intellectual work, although both are essential services. Being born to low economic families should not be a criterion for inferior status and educational opportunity either because there are now many examples of economic mobility within families and cultures.
The commitment to equality does NOT imply the elimination of all forms of differences, nor acceptance of violence. However, it DOES imply equal opportunity for access to well-paying jobs, participation in government, education and health care. The US led the world in free public education from the early 19th century until the late 20th century. That has now ended with poor quality PUBLIC primary and secondary education and very costly tertiary (college and university) education. Millions of Americans are burdened with heavy student loans that can rarely be paid off due to compounding high interest rates. Those from wealthy families who can afford the tuition or donate endowments are privileged to attend highly rated schools, almost guaranteeing them a well-paid position upon graduation.
Equality and Rights in Three Political Ideologies (article here)
Marxism: Karl Marx believed that the root cause of entrenched inequality was private ownership of land and natural resources. He argued that private ownership of property not only made the owners wealthy, it gave them political power and influence over laws and state policies. This is true because in most countries, only property owners had judicial and governing rights before the 20th century. Marxists and socialists point out that economic inequality leads to other forms of inequality such as differences of rank and privilege. The only way to tackle the problem is to end private property ownership and ensure state and public control over essential resources.
Liberalism: Liberals uphold the principle of competition as the most efficient and fair way to distribute resources and wealth in society. Competition in free and fair conditions prevents inequalities from becoming entrenched. Liberalism is generally in favor of democracy, freedom and capitalism, although some restrictions and regulations on capitalism are necessary to keep it fair. Today there is a huge range of radical liberalism practiced by American Democrats, unlike it was a couple of decades ago.
The foundation of liberalism borders on anarchy as an idealized state of existence, based on a minimalist government with a strictly limited range of actions and options. The purpose of government is to protect the people’s liberty to pursue the life they want to live. Natural rights belong to every person as an owned property right from birth until death, unless the individual demonstrates a lack of character or commits a violent crime, which can result in the suspension of their rights. Liberalism is a permissive, open philosophy of live and let live.
The ability to own and dispose of property is an excellent fit for the practice of capitalism in the pursuit of personal wealth in a free market economy. The accumulation of wealth under capitalism functions most efficiently with no rules to obstruct it. John Locke and Adam Smith were the primary leaders in the formation of liberalism. Capitalism is a modern economic system that comes about under free markets, or market liberalism, with private property and division of labor. There are other, non-economic aspects of liberalism as well, for example freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Social Liberalism: This is the idea that government shouldn’t be in the business of legislating morality, unless a certain behavior causes harm. For example, it’s immoral to steal. Because stealing causes injury to people, the government should outlaw it. Some people believe that it’s immoral for gays to marry. But since gays getting married doesn’t harm anyone, the government should not interfere.
The same logic can be applied to activities like sex work, which some people believe is immoral and want the government to ban it. Others believe that what two adults decide to do without coercion is no one else’s business. Liberalists believe safeguards should be in place to combat sex trafficking, but the government should otherwise stay out of the business of sex work.
Difference between Marxism and Liberalism:
1. Marxism was introduced by Karl Marx to explain the changes and inequalities in society as a result of the conflict between the capitalist elites and the working-class people (bourgeoisie and proletariats).
2. Liberalism, on the other hand, emphasizes the idea of being free and equal with regard to certain concepts like religion, trade, political freedom, civil rights, etc.
3. Marxism focuses more on establishing a classless society called Communism with strict government controls, whereas Liberalism is a movement that stresses the freedom in behavior and attitudes of individuals.
Socialism: Socialism refers to a set of political ideas that emerged as a response to the inequalities present in, and reproduced by, the industrial capitalist economy. The main concern of socialism is how to minimize existing inequality and distribute resources justly. Although advocates of socialism are not entirely opposed to the free market, they favor government regulation, planning and control over key areas such as education and health care.
Difference between Socialism and Liberalism (full article)
The tenets of socialism assert that the state should wield total economic power by manipulating prices of goods and wages of workers. Furthermore, socialism requires people to submit to the rule of law. In return for their compliance, citizens are provided with resources rationed by the government. Liberalism is a philosophy that promotes civil liberties, competition and private property ownership. Socialism generally opposes capitalism and ownership of private property in a way that liberalism does not.
Liberalism is more complex to define since it is further divided into classical and modern liberalism. Classical liberalism states that the government should take control of an institution in order to ensure that it continues to be of service to the people, free of charge. Classical liberalism does not see any need for the government to enforce law and order and subjugate its citizens under the iron rule of law and order. Modern liberalism veers away from this ideology by asserting that, aside from ensuring economic and political security, it is also the government’s job to interfere with people’s day-to-day affairs in order to maintain social security.
Summary of Differences:
1. Socialism holds that only by granting the state total economic and political power can economic progress and equality among citizens be attained.
2. Classical liberalism holds that the state should only take over an institution to ensure that citizens can freely benefit from that particular institution’s services. Classical liberalism does not require the thorough enforcing of law and order to reach economic progress and equality.
3. Modern liberalism holds that the state should interfere not only in economic or political affairs, but also in social affairs, such as day-to-day activities of its citizens. In effect, modern liberalism ceases to be associated with classical liberalism, and instead becomes similar to socialism.
Conclusion
We need a new ideology with political, economic and social constructs as an alternative to the Satanist agenda. Familiarity with historical ideologies and doctrines is a starting point for creating something better for humanity’s future. Old systems are crashing; get prepared for change with ideas on how to heal the planet and society. My next essay will propose elements that needed to be included for a paradigm shift that we can coalesce and collaborate around.