Ebook: Isocracy. The Institutions of Equality

In the twentieth century, two great political and social paradigms were the liberal-democratic and the libertarian (in its various socialist, anarchist, and communist declinations). The basic idea of the first approach is equal freedom or isonomy: the exclusion of any unjustified discrimination since the law and the rights are the same for everyone. The central idea of the second approach is, rather, freedom of the equals in power or isocracy: only if inequality between the one who commands and the one who obeys diminishes until it disappears, the society opens to the pursuit of pluralism and complex equality. This book analyzes the main economic and political institutions of an isocratic society. The utopian register becomes, however, realistic when the author argues the anthropological and structural reasons for which an alternative horizon needs to be imagined and practiced.
The book is for an audience interested in the critique of contemporary capitalism and in a renewed perspective of democratic socialism and left libertarianism.