Letters

On Equality

Editors:

It is perhaps symptomatic of a tragic flaw in the otherwise excellent thinking in Steven Lukes’ article on “Socialism and Equality” that he misrepresents the position of C. A. R. Crosland on the question. Mr. Lukes appears to indict all of “social democracy” when he cites Crosland as believing in the “meritocratic policy of widening the social base of recruitment to privileged positions.” This “...