General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich of these statements are you more in agreement with...
A. We can't have true social justice until we have economic justice:B. We can't have true economic justice until we have social justice:
C. There is no need to prioritize between economic justice and social justice, because we can work for and achieve both at the same time:
(elaborate on your answer below)
(note: Answers are listed in a different order than the statements actually appeared above)
7 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
Statement B | |
0 (0%) |
|
Statement A | |
2 (29%) |
|
Statement C | |
5 (71%) |
|
0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
Show usernames
Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll |
rock
(13,218 posts)Are clearly differentiated and have little interaction, so C.
TM99
(8,352 posts)and create a variation D.
Some will vote C and as one poster has said, there is no interaction between the two so we can work on both. Whereas I and others will vote C because there is an absolute interaction between the two. We must work on both together for either one to be successful.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)And I voted C, because I feel we need both and they do go hand in hand in many ways. You can't have one without the other.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)The choices are perfect. Adding more choices would dilute the results so we wouldn't get a clear picture.
For me economic justice is part of social justice because the economy happens in society.
canoeist52
(2,282 posts)"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong... with capitalism.... There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism".
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)and neither will be easier than the other.