GC, R10, et al
For the socialist D卐M☭CRATic their political philosophy is centered around John Rawls, "Original Position". For those interested in really understanding and charting a path forward, you need to read all of Rawls writing, which in no small way is the cherry that finishes off the Marxist sunday.
Marx's inhabits the transformation of the Age of Enlightenment through the Industrial Revolution. Marx's examines the social and economic impact on society arguing for equality through a classless society. Rawls embraces Marx's and moves the conversation to include Equality in "Fairness" and "Justice".
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The original position is a central feature of John Rawls’s social contract account of justice, “justice as fairness,” set forth in A Theory of Justice (TJ). The original position is designed to be a fair and impartial point of view that is to be adopted in our reasoning about fundamental principles of justice. In taking up this point of view, we are to imagine ourselves in the position of free and equal persons who jointly agree upon and commit themselves to principles of social and political justice. The main distinguishing feature of the original position is “the veil of ignorance”: to insure impartiality of judgment, the parties are deprived of all knowledge of their personal characteristics and social and historical circumstances. They do know of certain fundamental interests they all have, plus general facts about psychology, economics, biology, and other social and natural sciences. The parties in the original position are presented with a list of the main conceptions of justice drawn from the tradition of social and political philosophy, and are assigned the task of choosing from among these alternatives the conception of justice that best advances their interests in establishing conditions that enable them to effectively pursue their final ends and fundamental interests. Rawls contends that the most rational choice for the parties in the original position are two principles of justice: The first guarantees the equal basic rights and liberties needed to secure the fundamental interests of free and equal citizens and to pursue a wide range of conceptions of the good. The second principle provides fair equality of educational and employment opportunities enabling all to fairly compete for powers and positions of office; and it secures for all a guaranteed minimum of the all-purpose means (including income and wealth) that individuals need to pursue their interests and to maintain their self-respect as free and equal persons.
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
Related Cross reference from the Thread of Socital Collapse
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...4&postcount=45