The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. ¾ Edmund Burke No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. ¾ George Orwell Justice For All, Liberty For None Richard Rorty envisions an America that is vastly different from that of today. The capitalist system, with all of its inequalities, will be replaced with the socialist principals of redistributing wealth …showed first 75 words of 2226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2226 total…of “telescoping the revolution.” In Rorty’s view, the citizens are nothing more than a misguided mass of confused souls; wandering aimlessly while crying out for change. Rorty’s solution for this change appears as unpragmatic as the theories presented by the elites on the left that he so easily discounts. Works Cited Rorty, Richard. Achieving Our Country. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Schumaker, Paul, Dwight C. Kiel, and Thomas Heilke. Ideological voices. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.