The political doctrine that holds that all people in a society should have equal rights from birth
A belief or social philosophy that all people are equal in intrinsic worth and are entitled to equal access to the rights and privileges of their society It may include leveling of social, political and economic inequalities Exactly what aspects of social reality are considered in order to decide what should be equal and what unequal is a rather complex problem sometimes involves self contradictions: e g , equality of opportunity can result in unequal distributions, because people have different abilities, degrees of motivation, and luck: equality of resource inputs in different schools may result in inequality in educational achievements of the students, (if the latter began with unequal advantages), and attempting to increase student achievement, different schools might require unequal resource inputs in order to overcome the initial handicaps of some students
Egalitarianism is used to refer to the belief that all people are equal and should have the same rights and opportunities, and to actions that are based on this belief
Equalitarianism; the untenable belief that all men are biologically equal and that all inequalities in income, wealth and opportunity are the results of unscrupulous usurpation and expropriation of the masses by the capitalists Egalitarians contend that governments should use their coercive powers to restore and maintain the equality with which all men are supposed to be born [Further reading see "Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature" by Murray N Rothbard Mises Institute: (2000)] TH 528, et al