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MacKinnon, Rousseau, and the Origins of Inequality

Political Theory 101

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The Pre Political Inequality Argument

The problem is that the mechanism by which he suggests we address them is a somewhat difficult one to manage. I guess McKinnon would somehow have to do something like what Shalimith Firestone does in her book, the dialectic of sex. These arguments end up requiring some kind of major revision to human nature, right? The legislators supposed to reconfigure the socializing institutions and re-socialize people so that they are more collaborative at some scale.

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