•“The Western Tradition”: “A new public”

 

•“The Western Tradition”: “A new public” (#45; video, 26:40 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYbocufkwRFAS80nLFShkXSblfcFTXwRH
(Fast forward past the introductory graphics)
Part Two
•“Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html
•“Death by civilization”
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/traumatic-legacy-indian-boarding-schools/584293/
•“Schools tried to forcibly assimilate indigenous kids. Can the US make amends?” (video, 8 minutes)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/schools-tried-to-forcibly-assimilate-indigenous-kids-can-the-us-make-amends
•“A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions, and exclusion, separates black and white America”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html
Part Three
•GPCC, chapter 4, “The nation-state in the culture of capitalism”
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
Discussion post #9
Part One
• Describe “the age of the nation-states” and “a new public.”
• What functions does the nation-state perform in the culture of capitalism (pages 99-100, 102-104)?
• Although states (governments) have existed for as much as 7,000 years, how is the nation-state different from previous versions of states (governments)?
Part Two
• How has the nation-state been constructed from the standpoint of social engineering? How does this pertain to the history of race and ethnic relations in the U.S., including slavery, Native American genocide and oppression, immigration, and forms of racial oppression in general.
250 word minimum for the entire assignment; no maximum word count. Display the word count at the end of your post.

Sample Solution

principles that the book Two Treatise of Government represents:

Natural state. Human beings were originally in a purely natural state. Natural state is a state of complete freedom and equality. Natural law plays a dominant role in the natural state. Rationality, that is, natural law, teaches all human beings to obey rationality intentionally: since people are equal and independent, no one can infringe upon the lives, health, freedom and property of others. In the state of nature, the enforcement right of natural law belongs to everyone, that is to say, everyone has the right to punish those who violate natural law. This right of punishment is not unlimited, it is limited to the prevention of violations of natural law.

The origin of political society. Natural life is so beautiful. Why do people join the political society and be bound by political power? This is because there are three kinds of defects in the natural state: firstly, in the natural state, there is a lack of a formulated, stable and well-known law, which is the common standard of right and wrong and the common yardstick for judging all disputes between them. Secondly, In the natural state, there is a lack of a well-known and impartial judge who has the power to adjudicate all disputes in accordance with the established law. Thirdly, In the natural state, there is often a lack of power to support the correct judgment and make it properly enforced. Therefore, people are willing to give up the right of punishment which they exercise independently and leave it to the designated person among them to exercise it exclusively. The exercise of this power of punishment can not be arbitrary, but must be exercised in accordance with the rules of political and social consensus, or the rules of unanimous consent of their authorized representatives. This is the origin of legislative and administrative power, and the reason for the emergence of the government and the political society itself.

The purpose of the government is to protect private property. As long as a man separates anything from its natural state of existence, it has been mingled with his labor, that is, with all his own things, and thus it becomes his property. In other words, labor adds something to the natural things so that they become the private property of workers. Labor creates wealth, and money expands wealth. People have property rights in the natural

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