Capitalism and socialism
I heard that the rabbi wrote that capitalism and socialism are related to the right and left. On the surface, I don't see the connection. Ostensibly, it's a question of which value is greater, equality or human freedom (and not a generality or detail that supposedly stands on the right and left). Where can I find a systematic reference from a rabbi on the subject? And are the political right and left related to the analytical and synthetic?
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It is clear that the connections are complex and ambiguous, but there are such correlations.
My argument is that capitalism fundamentally values freedom and socialism equality. And this is one of the differences between the right and the left, even in the political sphere. The difference between individualism (freedom of each individual) and collectivism (= equality between individuals) is also related to this matter.
Although in practice the political right is more collectivist than the liberal left, it is collectivism in thought and not necessarily in practice. In my column on Feiglin I explained that the national (collective) dimension is part of the definition of the individual and his freedom. But in matters that do not concern the character of the public, there will be no coercion in right-wing thought.
This is also related to analytic versus synthetic, because the analytic only accepts the result of observation or logical argument, and the existence of collectives is not accepted by it. The sensory sees only individuals and not collectives.
As far as I remember, at the end of this series I dealt with this:
https://soundcloud.com/mikyabchannel/sets/y7bf7zt3bcib
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