(Posted to Marxmail by Ed George) [Anthony Giddens is the man generally accredited with founding the ideology of the 'third way', the ideological camouflage preferred by neo-liberal European social democracy, the most complete practitioner of which generally being held to be Tony Blair. This article is Giddens' attempt to meet the criticism that the generalised difficulties faced by European social democracy - and by extension the rise of far-right forces - are a result of a too great move to the right. Giddens responds with more of the same. Particularly significant - and alarming - is Giddens' conclusion that to save itself, and to counteract the threat of the right - social democracy has to be more tough on crime, and on immigration: i.e. to defeat the far right it has to adapt itself to its positions.]
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,709089,00.html> -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org
