I find it interesting that the political arrangement is is supposed to be the outcome of societies morals. Socialists keep trying to argue for a different political system on the basis of a the same morals that produce our current arrangements. That doesn’t make very much sense.

I would be more interested in their arguments if they came out with a better defense of socialist morals other than egalitarianism/altruism and all of those other cliche’ beliefs spewed by public schools.

There is a role for family, but families presuppose an ethos, and we may note that in dictatorial societies, family practices are corrupted. So even before we consider the flaws in an economic model based on the family, it fails as a moral or societal model. Nonetheless, the view of society as a family has a great hold on people, for they have generally experienced the support of parents, so they are willing to relinquish their liberties.

I’d like to read the book. I wonder how he justifies his value of egalitarianism. Most stuff I’ve read from the left assumes egalitarianism, rather than justifying it. I see know reason to value it. In fact, egalitarianism does not seem fair to me.