2023-05-05 11:48:00
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CHRONIC. The social question has been cannibalized by the unhealthy obsession with differences in income and heritage when these say nothing about the condition of peoples and the less privileged.
Par Ferghan Azihari
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« SIf jealousy, envy and hatred could be eliminated from the universe, socialism would disappear the same day,” wrote the psychologist Gustave Le Bon. The statement hits its target, but deserves to be nuanced. The French Academy defines jealousy as “the lively and suspicious attachment to a good” or even the “disappointment of not having what another obtains or possesses and which one desires for oneself”.
Presented in this way, it has a virtue. She manifests an honorable desire to improve her condition. However, the obsession with patrimonial differences specific to socialism pays little attention to the wealth of nations. Socialism was born in the 19the century, when the industrial revolution heralded a massive decline in poverty.
It is when the famines fade away that the schooling of children…
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