ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that egalitarianism can be an autonomy respecting egalitarianism respecting individual desert, entitlement and self-ownership. "Ideals," Kamooneh remarks, "like meaningful work, self-determination and economic participation are among the favorites of socialists, and claiming that they follow from the pet liberal ideal of equal respect and concern is an illegitimate move in the absence of convincing arguments." The contrast between liberal egalitarianism and socialist egalitarianism comes out starkly in what David Richards correctly says on John Rawls' s behalf about democratic equality and the proper utilization of human resources. Rodney Peffer agrees that the notion of meaningful work is not so imprecise that there is not a correlation between, on the one hand, its being meaningful and, on the other, its being something the worker has some control over and its being creative.
