Prolegomena to a Democratic Theory of the Division of Labor

Abstract

The bedrock problem of democracy is not the size of government or the nature of its institutions, though those are serious enough concerns, but rather the social class formation on which democracy is to be erected. In some sense a society of political equals must be a society of social equals: a “classless society.” Democracy in the political division of labor requires democracy, even if not absolutely, in the social division of labor, and democratic theory ought always to proceed on that foundation.