--- On Mon, 22/6/09, Venkat Inumella <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Venkat Inumella <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 22 June, 2009, 7:32 PM
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM,
> Sirtaj Singh Kang <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 22-Jun-09, at 10:28 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
> wrote:de
> >
> >> India is deprived of a good Right-wing
> party.
> >>
> >
> > What would you see as the ideals and platform of a
> good Right-wing party?
> >
> > -Taj.
> >
> >
> Is there a term for a combination of "right wing"
> free-market capitalism and
> "left wing" cultural liberalism? I'm at a loss to
> understand (with my
> limited knowledge of political philosophy, admittedly) what
> is so
> incompatible between the two that it has only to be the one
> or the other,
> along with either reactionary social ideology or socialist
> economic policy.
>
> Venkat Inumella
Frankly, no, these are perfectly viable in combination, unless one is a Marxist
and believes that culture is part of the superstructure of a particular state
of development of society, hence is determined - and shaped - largely by
control of the means of production, hence any cultural impulses during a period
of capitalism (I leave out the 'free market' bit for separate comment some
other time) are likely to have been formed by the underlying class character of
society as typical of a capitalist phase.
If we leave this behind, there is every hope of holding both sets of beliefs,
capitalism (preferably modified well within the extreme and egregious
boundaries of the Anglo-American variety) and cultural liberalism need not be
in opposition to each other.
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