Redistribution of Wealth as a Cure for Depression | Clarissa's Blog
I didn’t look for the article, but it is clear that moral idealism can never be economics. No, no, I mean it SHOULD BE clear. What you are describing is the typical moral leftists’ proclamation — “I will hit the economics problem with my moral discourse. Oh, wait a second, I can’t do that.”
So they end up simply siding with regimes that LOOK LIKE they embody liberal liberation fantasies, but turn out to be rather more complex, because, hey, reality is complex. So, they say, “Oh, Mugabe’s great, an anti-colonial marvel. Oh, wait, he’s not good, a despot.” If they’d taken the whole picture into account to begin with, they would not be flipflopping quite so much. But moral leftism is always going to face trouble with its worst enemy — reality.
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