Interventionism, Authoritarianism, and the Liberal State in South Africa.

The liberal constitution in South Africa, which entrenches a certain kind of socio-economic organization, renders traditional African systems of socio-economic organization dysfunctional. Traditional communitarian systems contain within themselves structures endorsing mutuality and reciprocity as gr...

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Publicado en:Philosophia Africana Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 53 - 71
Autor principal: Coetzee, Pieter
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Pennsylvania State University Press Aug2002
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        Authoritarianism
        Liberalism
        Communitarianism
        Socioeconomics
        Human rights
        Gyekye, Kwame
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          South Africa
          Authoritarianism
          Liberalism
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      ab: The liberal constitution in South Africa, which entrenches a certain kind of socio-economic organization, renders traditional African systems of socio-economic organization dysfunctional. Traditional communitarian systems contain within themselves structures endorsing mutuality and reciprocity as ground rules or values distributing significant resources (both material and moral) to agents in accordance with their socially determined desserts. The absence of these structures in South Africa contributes to a condition, inflamed by liberal structures, of rights paralysis under which agents are unable to translate rights into substantial benefits. In this article, I examine this condition with reference to two communitarian systems in order to exhibit their advantages as correctives to the paralysis of rights and also to compare them in order to establish the one appropriate to conditions in South Africa.
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