Taken to the Cleaners: Global Capitalism Necessitates Liberal Universal Human Rights

We will also examine how human rights measure up cross-culturally as well as what human rights have to do with individualism on one hand and universalism on the other. In all the declarations of human rights at the UN, the universality of human rights is constantly being reworked. Universal human rights is antithetical to political democracyDe Benoist contends that democracy and universal human rights stem from different sources. Human Rights and CapitalismAssociated with the universalist expansion of markets, the discussion of human rights constitutes the ideological armor of globalization. Distinguishing Republicans from LiberalsUniversal human rights is grounded in the political philosophy of liberalismThere is a reason I am calling universal human rights “liberal” universal human rights in this article.