Nobody deserves anything. Why the Left needs meritocracy
Original title: Nadie merece nada
A case against the left’s abandonment of one of iits best ideas: meritocracy.
Criticism of meritocracy as a means of legitimising unjust inequalities is one of the left’s key causes. But what if reducing merit to a mere excuse for privilege were also an intellectual and strategic error? What if, by rejecting meritocracy, the Left were handing the Right one of its most powerful ideas on a plate?
An incisive, original, critical, first-hand and well-argued contribution to the debate on merit in our societies.
A case against the left’s abandonment of one of iits best ideas: meritocracy.
Criticism of meritocracy as a means of legitimising unjust inequalities is one of the left’s key causes. But what if reducing merit to a mere excuse for privilege were also an intellectual and strategic error? What if, by rejecting meritocracy, the Left were handing the Right one of its most powerful ideas on a plate?
An incisive, original, critical, first-hand and well-argued contribution to the debate on merit in our societies.