Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Consuming Life. Polity Press, 2007.
At the time all the Australian political parties were supporting a White Only immigration policy. Lambrick, who sometimes used the name Hypatia, started the race policy debate in the Socialist Party by this line in a Socialist Journal.
He was writing about America and many of the industrial democracies who at the time, as a result of globalziation, technology, government action and inaction, and other factors, had gone through a 30 year period of increasing disparities.
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later Emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.
