Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism: The Ideological Civil War Within the West

Hudson Institute ^ | October 26, 200 | John Fonte

[The UnVeiled Lady]

EVERYONE ON FREE REPUBLIC SHOULD READ THIS ARTICLE!!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/805656/posts

I have posted this everywhere.  I may get crap from everyone for all kinds of posting violations or
maybe be banned but I think it is important enough to suffer the slings and arrows.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

On reflection, this would seem to be natural political subgroups in a "one world government" It certainly explains current "progressive" thought. I am not agreeable to tolerating a post-constitutional era.

[BenLurkin]

Typical "intellectual"clap-trap. This "new Progresivism" is nothing more than International Communism reborn.

The particulars of this theory are a combination of strategic smoke screens to hide the actual nature of the movement, and tactical techiniques to destroy the foundations of the American model of republican liberty.

As for Fukuyama: either he is a hopeless mental self-diddler, or he is a sham apologist in league with the enemies of the free world.

[fourdeuce82d]

This "new Progresivism" is nothing more than International Communism reborn.

Nope.

equally pernicious perhaps, and attractive to the same sort of people, for similar reasons, but not really marxist.

[fourdeuce82d]

This "new Progresivism" is nothing more than International Communism reborn.

Nope.

equally pernicious perhaps, and attractive to the same sort of people, for similar reasons, but not really marxist.

[IronJack]

I have to agree with Ben on this one. Look at the cornerstones of this "new" movement:

The ascribed group over the individual citizen

Collectivism, the hallmark of communism.

A dichotomy of groups

The dialectic. The author even credits Hegel. Material dialecticism is the principle tool of the Left.

Group proportionalism as the goal of "fairness"

At its best, socialist egalitarianism. At its worst, redistribution of wealth.

The Demographic Imperative
The Redefinition of democracy and "democratic ideals"
Deconstruction of National Narratives and National Symbols
Promotion of the concept of Post-National Citizenship.

All four of these are simply internationalism, the borderless "workers' paradise" Leon Trotsky envisioned.

The Idea of Transnationalism as a major conceptual tool.

The final line in the Communist Manifesto: "Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. And you have a world to win."

You can put a tutu on a sow but it doesn't make her a ballerina. And you can package communism as "Third Way," "New Progressivism," "Democratic Socialism," "Socialist Democracy," or "American Liberalism," but it's still the horror that cost 100 million people their lives last century.