ABSTRACT
There are many social objectives which all reasonable citizens share in common : a decent standard of living, a decent distribution of income and wealth, individual liberty, individual security, individual participation in the making of decisions. Disagreement starts when these objectives conflict – when, for example, economic efficiency and a consequential high average standard of living is found to be dependent upon a less equal distribution of income and wealth than would otherwise be desirable. The radical in politics is the citizen who places a rather high relative value upon Liberty and Equality in the catalogue of social goods.
