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Conference Paper: Solidarity: Perversions and Promises
| Title | Solidarity: Perversions and Promises |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2019 |
| Publisher | Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, University of Perugia. |
| Citation | Critical Legal Conference 2019: Alienation, Perugia, Italy, 12–14 September 2019 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | There is a sense in which “inequality” has superseded “class” as the means for evaluating contemporary
capitalist societies. Not for everyone, though. Warren Buffett, billionaire investor, said in an interview in
2006: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re
winning.” In 2011, after the financial crash, he updated his insight, declaring victory: “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”
In her book Political Solidarity (2008), Sally Scholz identifies three basic forms of solidarity: social, civic, and political, the latter entailing positive duties of cooperation, social activism, and social criticism. But how do these stand or fail against the victories of 'Buffett's class' and its economic solidarity? How, if at all, is solidarity imagined and delivered in or through legal institutions? This presentation returns to these
enduring questions. |
| Description | Session 13 / General Stream |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/274274 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Veitch, TS | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-18T14:58:31Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-18T14:58:31Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Critical Legal Conference 2019: Alienation, Perugia, Italy, 12–14 September 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/274274 | - |
| dc.description | Session 13 / General Stream | - |
| dc.description.abstract | There is a sense in which “inequality” has superseded “class” as the means for evaluating contemporary capitalist societies. Not for everyone, though. Warren Buffett, billionaire investor, said in an interview in 2006: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” In 2011, after the financial crash, he updated his insight, declaring victory: “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” In her book Political Solidarity (2008), Sally Scholz identifies three basic forms of solidarity: social, civic, and political, the latter entailing positive duties of cooperation, social activism, and social criticism. But how do these stand or fail against the victories of 'Buffett's class' and its economic solidarity? How, if at all, is solidarity imagined and delivered in or through legal institutions? This presentation returns to these enduring questions. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, University of Perugia. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Critical Legal Conference 2019 | - |
| dc.title | Solidarity: Perversions and Promises | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Veitch, TS: veitch@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Veitch, TS=rp01295 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 302354 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Italy | - |