Thomas Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy, Elizabeth Anderson

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  • Elizabeth Anderson, professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, considers how Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S., grounded the justification of social insurance in a theory of private property rights. She explores the ironic inversion of social insurance from a bulwark of to a perceived assault on capitalism.
    The first realistic proposal to abolish poverty by means of universal social insurance was Thomas Paine, who explicitly sought to defend private property against socialist revolutionaries. The first actual social insurance scheme, introduced by Otto von Bismarck, was opposed by the German Social Democratic Party. Now, however, critics of every social insurance proposal in the U.S., including recent health care reform, have called them socialist attacks on private property.
    This lecture is part of the annual Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy series. For more information, visit www.law.uchicago.edu/events/20....
    February 29, 2012
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 33

  • @Who-vt9oh
    @Who-vt9oh 3 роки тому +5

    Social democracy is the best socioeconomic/sociopolitical system there is.

  • @lucijafurac3691
    @lucijafurac3691 4 роки тому +3

    She's a great speaker.

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 4 роки тому +2

    Awesome ... brilliant woman!

  • @JulesTaylorMusic
    @JulesTaylorMusic 4 роки тому +3

    My guard went up when I realized this is coming from U of Chicago

    • @yuriarin3237
      @yuriarin3237 3 роки тому

      @Pinko Commie Rag Something something CHicago boys, something something Milton Friedman

  • @MrSmart0ne
    @MrSmart0ne 5 років тому +3

    Idealism and reality are 2 different things , idealism takes force to implement.

  • @professorspf
    @professorspf 11 років тому +1

    17:00
    But it turned out that this guillotine was not for Pain(e).
    No pun intended.

  • @Spiral.Dynamics
    @Spiral.Dynamics 4 роки тому +1

    She sounds better here. I just watched her on Chris Hedges’ show On Contact and she seemed weird.

    • @timjanssen6846
      @timjanssen6846 4 роки тому +3

      Nothing weird about her. She's a wonderfully articulate and brilliant woman. What's your problem?

    • @Spiral.Dynamics
      @Spiral.Dynamics 4 роки тому +1

      Tim Janssen I don’t have a problem. Apparently you do if it’s not okay for people to have an opinion.
      She’s a brilliant woman who looks like a freak in this interview
      ua-cam.com/video/VNHpQK1Sie4/v-deo.html

    • @tylermerlin8320
      @tylermerlin8320 4 роки тому +1

      I enjoyed that interview

  • @neoepicurean3772
    @neoepicurean3772 5 років тому +2

    1:12:47 The claim that Norway has high levels of entrepreneurship is false. I've just lived there for 13 years trying to run start-up businesses. Nearly impossible. Everything fails due to high wage bills and taxes.

    • @NYGGJELEBEITE
      @NYGGJELEBEITE 4 роки тому +13

      Do you have some relevant statistics and sources, or is this just your experience?

    • @scotchwhisky6094
      @scotchwhisky6094 4 роки тому +2

      Social democracy is the best thing since sliced bread and butter.

    • @skronked
      @skronked 3 роки тому

      It's a Soviet satellite state

    • @neoepicurean3772
      @neoepicurean3772 3 роки тому

      @@NYGGJELEBEITE Are you kidding me? Have you seen the failure rate for small businesses? I just started a new venture over there, I forgot how bad it was... My partner is a first timer doing business in Norway, he can't believe it.
      Some friends of mine invested 2 million in opening Lekk in Bergen last year - busy every night and lasted three months. Business as recognised in many other countries is nearly impossible in Norway.

    • @jemandoondame2581
      @jemandoondame2581 3 роки тому

      It definitely used to be like that. I assume that she is just using old sources.

  • @phoneapps3124
    @phoneapps3124 3 місяці тому

    Needs lessons in public speaking. Revolutionary times commands great thinking and speech which she fails to convey. Tom Paine would not be inspired!