title: Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
author:  Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 
description: <br>"The Cold War debate in which the West stood for civil and political rights and the Soviet Union argued for economic and social rights was sterile and stillborn. It ignored the fundamental insight of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: human beings require both to live in dignity and flourish. Taking economic and social rights seriously will be as important for the survival of democracies in this century as safeguarding their heritage of civil and political rights. This book is an important and useful step in that direction." -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University <br>
zlib_text: Report of the Committee on the Question of
  Inheritance
  Mikhail Bakunin
  1871
  Citizens,
  This question, which will be discussed at the Basle Congress, is divided into two parts, the first
  being the principle, and the second being the practical application of the principle.
  The question of the principle itself should be considered from two standpoints: expedience and
  justice.
  From the standpoint of the emancipation of labor, is it expedient, is it necessary, to abolish the
  right of inheritance? In our opinion, to ask this question is to answer it. What can the emancipa-
  tion of labor mean, if not its' deliverance from the yoke of property and capital? And how can
  property and capital be prevented from dominating labor and exploiting it so long as they are
  divorced from labor, monopolized by the members of a class who need not work in order to live
  because of their exclusive enjoyment of the fruits of that monopoly, who will continue to exist
  and to keep labor down by levying on it land's r