The Question Of Identity Has

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

An Ideal And Flawless Freedom, "complete Freedom", Enabling Without Disabling, Is I Believe An Oxymoron In Metaphysics As Much As It Is An Unreachable Goal In Social Life.

In A Nutshell: If Freedom Visualised By The Enlightenment And Demanded/promised By Marx Was Made To The Measure Of The Ideal Producer; The Market-promoted Freedom Is Designed With The Ideal Consumer In Mind; Neither Of The Two Is "more Genuine" Than The Other.

Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming Economic Miracles Of China, Brazil Or India.

Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.