freedom from want Flashcards
• Should freedom from want be considered a basic human right? If so, how would one guarantee that right? Refer to McGarvey
For this to be a basic right and have it guaranteed, rehabilitation needs to be easily accessible to everyone so people can exercise this willpower to the full extent. This includes therapy, rehab centers and so on. Thus, like anything, willpower is crucial to overcome one’s own want.
Another method is education.
What’s is the relationship between want and other social harms?
• This “want” can be damaging to one’s wellbeing. For example, the want can lead to addiction of a substance?
• What are your impressions of McGarvey’s reflections on his own life experience? What did you learn from what he told you about his own life?
• McGarvey want for alcohol deeply affected his life as he became addicted to it (alcoholic). However, Mcgarvey showed the positives of freedom and free will which was his process of quitting alcohol. McGarveys story empathizes the power of one’s own agency and what agency is capable of.
• political ideologies dictating what qualities are assicoted with freedom from want
what is freedom of want as an ideal?
It’s the notion that the basic needs of all people should be met and that by meeting those needs, individuals born into less favourable circumstances, stand a greater chance of fulfilling their potential and realising their dreams
• who decides who gets power and How?
• Who does not have the ability to access the freedom of want?
what is Neoliberalism? what is the criticism of this concept?
Generally speaking, neoliberalism is a set of social, cultural, and political-economic forces that puts competition at the center of social life without the gov intereference
• However this suggests the market is free and unbiased
• Prices are never fixed and supply will never produce too much
What Market does Neolib support? what gov structure?
Free Market: Neoliberalism promotes the idea of a free market economy where supply and demand determine prices and allocation of resources. It argues that market forces, if left unhindered, lead to efficient outcomes and economic prosperity.
Limited Government Intervention: Neoliberalism advocates for minimal government interference in the economy. This means reducing regulations, lowering taxes, and privatizing state-owned enterprises. The belief is that government intervention often distorts market mechanisms and hampers economic growth.
Individual Freedom: Neoliberalism emphasizes individual freedom and choice. It posits that individuals should be free to make their own economic decisions, including choices related to employment, consumption, and investment.
Deregulation: Neoliberal policies often involve reducing or eliminating regulations that govern businesses and markets. Supporters argue that this encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.
Globalization: Neoliberalism is associated with the globalization of trade and finance. Advocates argue that free trade between nations and the free flow of capital across borders can lead to increased economic growth and prosperity.
Austerity Measures: During times of economic crisis, neoliberal policies might advocate for austerity measures,
what is Neoliberalism as a totalizing cultural docterine ? What does this create ?
including reducing government spending and social welfare programs, in an attempt to balance budgets and promote economic stability.
Social Solidarity and Collectivism vs. Radical
How does neolib affect solidarity?
• Neolib wants everyone to compete, thus making collectivism impossible
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what is self enclosed Individualism?
Self-enclosed individualism relies on a dichotomous framework that positions the individual in opposition to all other human and nonhuman beings. (“It’s me against the world.”)
what does self-enclosed Individualism cause?
• Incessant competition
• Constant insecurity and precarity
• Continual sense of crisis or urgency
• Hyper-responsibilization
• Blaming people in the working class
Neolib with Right wing VS left
• Right
• Ignored the plights of lower classes and popular opposition to reforms
• Riots and protest being ignored
• If you are poor on unfortunate Saiety will blame you
• The rich are praised
• Modified the labour laws to make collective bargaining less effective
• Sold off state property and assets once used to assist the less fortunate
• Justified it with “just deserts” and tone-deaf conception of the failures of the lower orders
• Self-Serving notion of “merit” to justify radical inequality.
• Left
Lacks an adequate analysis of the role of individual
agency with collective action
• The view that there is room for accountability in any social critique
• Kind of authoritarianism of collectivism that forces corformity
• Structure vs. agency
Social justice is equated with helping “the victim”
• left erases their individualism
what does this Quote mean?
Neither the left nor the right’s definition of the individual’s role contacts the reality of what the individual may face in a time of profound social, economic, and political emergency. A nightmare scenario where they are told only low wages will keep their poverty at bay, that only a recession can beat inflation, and where democratically-elected leaders who once protected the individual from the excesses of free enterprise, have handed that role to the markets.” (pg. 12)
• Neither the left nor the right question the legitimacy of markets and market society
• thus it transconds left and right with Hegemony
• What is the role that culture plays in legitimizing and sustaining capitalism and capitalist states?
• We accept to the status quo because many agree with it. The many are the governed and most powerful (Rich). In other words, Power is maintained by winning the consent of the governed which reinforces the status quo and forms Hegemony
What is continous project in relation to the sustability of Neoliberalism?
• Continuous project to maintain the legitimacy of the current elites.
• continious verbalization and application to spread those narratives
• “ canada is a peaceful and fair country’
