Third-way thinking can't IMO be an alternative to the eternal muddle of "liberalism" vs. "conservatism." The left in this country has gone through this illusion--now slinkily remarketed yet again as "good" populism--with increasing frequency since the 1990s, always with catastrophic results. It goes back at least as far as the IMO unlamented but lamentable reactionary Ken Kesey
Red-brown IMO is always and only brown in the long run--that is the point of it. The Third Way is a gimmick. In the US, we don't go in for the bullshit quasi-medievalist "organicism" that permeated eg the so-called "thought" of Mussolini and Gentile, nor do we have much European-style overt ruling-class classism; instead we have what is generally thought of as "a man's godgiven rights" (pronounced "rats") carried to an astonishing extreme in the "marketplace of idears," where "a man goes out" to sell his "ideas" and "folks" buy them. This "classic liberalism" leads very quickly to the worst form of illiberalism. "I'll buy that!" is the cry--or "I ain't buying that." There's always that "third way" for discerning "mavericks" like Dore--a product for sale or a marketing opportunity like any other. When will we ever learn? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8471): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8471 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82621517/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
