Friday, April 21, 2006

Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Sound familiar? Well try Sectarian entrepreneurs on for size!
... self-seeking group leaders, who encourage feelings of resentment and inequality amongst group members in order to justify maintaining control over them.... On this view, group elites have an incentive to keep members in a (real or perceived) position of disadvantage, since their clientele and fuding would dry up if group members succeeded in larger society. (Kymlicka 2002: 331)

4 comments:

Master Blaster said...

Rather, this is so Hizbullah.

Master Blaster said...

Which Kymlicka books is this? Can liberal pluralism be exported? Alternative conceptions?

Master Blaster said...

Wait, it can't be alternative conceptions, that doesn't have 300+ pages!

Raja said...

Tony, its Contemporary Political Philosophy, An Intorduction, Second Edition.