Almost certainly, because any articulation of a new "subject position" carries an implicit claim to human rights as they're already established. But I'd say, that social democracy is a system in which economic resources are means to social goals, so that if the mobility and fluidity of identities is a fundamental social goal (as per democratic decision), then it behooves us to figure out a way to make these things possible. The first step has already been taken without anybody deciding on it--the detachment of income from work, and the corresponding distance between occupation and identity. Thanks for this, Barry.
Do “the new mobility and fluidity of identities” pose no challenge to the public’s move towards a social democracy?
Almost certainly, because any articulation of a new "subject position" carries an implicit claim to human rights as they're already established. But I'd say, that social democracy is a system in which economic resources are means to social goals, so that if the mobility and fluidity of identities is a fundamental social goal (as per democratic decision), then it behooves us to figure out a way to make these things possible. The first step has already been taken without anybody deciding on it--the detachment of income from work, and the corresponding distance between occupation and identity. Thanks for this, Barry.
Well said, Jim. All of it.