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    The state functions as a class state serving the rich and... — Carmelics
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    The state functions as a class state serving the rich and propertied.

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    • 1.The state is guided by the common interest of the rich and propertied.
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    • 2.The state imposes unfreedom and subordination on the poor and weak.
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    • 1.Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie demonstrates that the state embodies universal ethical life (Sittlichkeit) irreducible to any particular class interest.
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    • 2.Civil society's particular interests are systematically mediated and corrected by state institutions representing the universal will.
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    • 3.A state that successfully adjudicates between competing class factions cannot itself be the instrument of only one faction.
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    • 1.Rawls's original position shows that rational agents behind a veil of ignorance would design institutions protecting the least advantaged, not the propertied.
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    • 2.If actual liberal states partially instantiate such principles through welfare provisions and legal equality, they falsify the claim of pure class function.
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    Rawls's original position shows that rational agents behind a veil of ignorance ...The state imposes unfreedom and subordination on the poor and weak.The state is guided by the common interest of the rich and propertied.

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    In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to answer what he takes to be the fundamental question of politics, the reconciliation of the freedom of the individual with the authority of the state. This reconciliation is necessary because human society has evolved to a point where individuals can no longer supply their needs through their own unaided efforts, but rather must depend on the co-operation of others. The process whereby human needs expand and interdependence deepens is set out in the Di
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