Capitalism and Social Rights
Against The Current vol. 140
Wood, Ellen Meiksins
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2150
Date Written: 2009-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13514
We're talking here about rights and how to guarantee them in an unequal globalized society. I’m just going to take it for granted that all of us here believe in human rights in some sense of the term. Let’s start from the premise that all human beings, just by virtue of being human, are entitled to certain basic conditions of freedom and dignity which have to be respected by others, not just by other individuals but also, and especially, by people in power and by states.
