Democratic Society and Human Needs

Download or read book Democratic Society and Human Needs written by Jeff Noonan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary. For him, a democratic society is one in which human beings collectively control necessary life-resources, using them to promote the essential human value of free capability realization. His critique of globalization and liberal-capitalism vindicates radical social and economic democratization and provides an essential step towards understanding the vast discrepancies between rich and poor within and between democratic countries.