Against human rights
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2010v15n1p11Keywords:
Human Rights, Universality, Liberal-capitalismAbstract
Alibi for militarist interventions, sacralization for the tyranny of the market, ideological foundation for the fundamentalism of the politically correct: can the ‘symbolic fiction’ of universal rights be recuperated for the progressive politicization of actual socio-economic relations?Downloads
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