Fraternity is a feeling, and a moral quality, but fraternity is also a political concept.

The French Revolution proclaimed an ethical and political ideal with its three principles: liberty, equality and fraternity. Since then, western political philosophy has got to great lengths to analyze the liberty and equality, but has ignored, and even disdained, the third part of the revolutionary triad: fraternity. Forgetting or underestimating fraternity as a political category is unjustifiable.

Political fraternity can help us to overcome some of the main problems...