Full Idea
Community is about membership and inclusion. But that means it is also about non-membership and exclusion.
Gist of Idea
Membership and inclusion in a community implies non-membership and exclusion
Source
Adam Swift (Political Philosophy (3rd ed) [2014], 4 'Conc')
Book Reference
Swift,Adam: 'Political Philosophy (3rd edn)' [Polity 2014], p.184
A Reaction
I'm a fan of communitarianism (focused on Aristotle's life of individual virtue for each citizen), but I'm beginning to see that it has a poisonous cousin travelling under the same name. The cousin's rallying cries focus on aliens and enemies.