egalitarianism.

A commitment to or doctrine favoring human equality in specified social, political or economic respects.

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Words that belong together

• political egalitarianism
• economic egalitarianism

On the page

Political egalitarianism in the essay concerned equal standing in collective decisions.

Economic egalitarianism was discussed without assuming agreement on one distributional rule.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: uncommon.