What is Good? A Coda

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No discussion of economic good and political reform would be complete without reference to George Orwell's famous quote from his essay on Kipling:

All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment', demands that the robbery shall continue.

If our society is based on exploitation, then it is hard to break the exploitation and save the society.

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