18 ideas
| 20937 | The state should produce higher civilisations for all, in tune with the economic apparatus [Gramsci] |
| 23418 | Liberal state legitimacy is based on a belief in justice, not in some conception of the good life [Kymlicka] |
| 20935 | Eventually political parties lose touch with the class they represent, which is dangerous [Gramsci] |
| 23414 | Liberals say state intervention in culture restricts people's autonomy [Kymlicka] |
| 20936 | Caesarism emerges when two forces in society are paralysed in conflict [Gramsci] |
| 20941 | Totalitarian parties cut their members off from other cultural organisations [Gramsci] |
| 20939 | What is the function of a parliament? Does it even constitute a part of the State structure? [Gramsci] |
| 23410 | Modern liberals see a community as simply a society which respects freedom and equality [Kymlicka] |
| 20938 | Liberalism's weakness is its powerful rigid bureaucracy [Gramsci] |
| 23409 | Community can focus on class or citizenship or ethnicity or culture [Kymlicka] |
| 23419 | Communitarianism struggles with excluded marginalised groups [Kymlicka] |
| 23413 | Feminism has shown that social roles are far from fixed (as communitarians tend to see them) [Kymlicka] |
| 23415 | Participation aids the quest for the good life, but why should that be a state activity? [Kymlicka] |
| 20940 | Perfect political equality requires economic equality [Gramsci] |
| 23411 | Communitarians see justice as primarily a community matter, rather than a principle [Kymlicka] |
| 23412 | Justice resolves conflicts, but may also provoke them [Kymlicka] |
| 16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
| 6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |