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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism
—or, rarely,
equalitarianism
or
equalism
—is a trend of thought that favors
equality
for all people. Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or
social status
, according to the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
. According to the
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English: either as a political
doctrine
that all people should be treated as equals and have the same
political
,
economic
,
social
, and
civil rights
; or as a social philosophy advocating
the removal of economic inequalities among people
,
economic egalitarianism
, or the
decentralization of power
. Some sources define egalitarianism as the point of view that equality reflects the natural state of humanity.
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