​The first rough draft of Fractal Socialism (as of 20 September) is down for heavy revisions, after discussion at the Edinburgh workshop on 16 October. Feel free to email me for a draft. 



A quick guide for those without time or inclination to read the whole thing. 

The manuscript develops the view that living well is living in caring solidarity. The first chapter, 'Caring Solidarity as Human,' introduces the structure of the moral relationship at the heart of this approach.

The second chapter, 'Friendship, Roles, and Moral Community' identifies this structural relationship in a form of friendship, and then abstracts from friendship to consider, partly by considering a variety of metaphors, how this structure might be generalised to all social roles. 

The third chapter, 'Relational Ethics by Flowchart' locates this moral approach within moral and political theory as a version of relational ethics, and differentiates this approach from various others, starting with Scanlonian contractualism. 

The fourth chapter, 'On Sharing Authority,' attempts to characterise the distinctively social basis of moral authority in this approach. Within social models, fractal socialism is distinguished from a centralised collectivism. This is the most abstract of the five chapters. 

The fifth chapter, 'Liberal Dualism versus Fractal Socialism,' draws on the material from all the chapters to contrast a model on which individuals have fundamentally distinct personal and moral reasons, with a socialist model on which all authoritative reasons are personal, and role-based, and moral. 































































































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