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Political Ideals

A work by Bertrand Russell, first published in 1917

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The aim of politics is to make individual lives as good as possible, The best life gives the most room to creative impulses and the least to possessive ones, There can be no real freedom or democracy until workers control the management of their business …

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    Bertrand Russell

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Key facts

First published
19172
Claims on korrents
191

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The aim of politics is to make individual lives as good as possible (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The best life gives the most room to creative impulses and the least to possessive ones (opens korrents.com)1

  3. There can be no real freedom or democracy until workers control the management of their business (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Democracy is the best device so far for limiting government interference with liberty (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Possessiveness is the ultimate source of war and of the political world's ills (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Capitalism and the wage system must be abolished (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. Political Ideals (1917) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Political Ideals, Q16262802 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)

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