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Liberalism in the TrenchesMADRID – After a dizzying few months, in which Donald Trump’s young presidency called into question the entire post-World War II global order, the geopolitical status quo appears to have reemerged.
Their liberalism has become a matter of cold economics, rather than values and common humanity.
But it is the opponents of liberalism who are wielding it most effectively.
If liberalism is to survive as a guiding framework for international relations, its proponents must tap into passions of their own.
If liberalism is ever to out-reason populism, voters must be able to comprehend what liberals are offering.
Both sides challenge the old orthodoxies; but while one seeks to remove the “neo” from neoliberalism, the other seeks to dismantle liberalism altogether.
Russian reformers eagerly embraced economic liberalism at the end of the 1980s.
Alas, following Europe’s economic crisis, something other than liberalism, or even neoliberalism, has taken over our establishment, seemingly without anyone noticing.
In the dark, congested alleys of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, or Quetta, the yearning is not for democratic liberalism, but for the believers to unite behind the one true faith.
Liberalism, however, was never an unproblematic worldview for even the most westernized East Europeans.
But what few observers – particularly economic analysts – seem to understand is that the Chinese leadership’s fight against liberalism and “Western values” is directly undermining its efforts to root out official corruption, promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and deepen engagement with the outside world.
A crackdown on liberalism, he seems to believe, will work alongside his anti-corruption campaign to advance this goal.
Populism, unlike, say, liberalism or Marxism, is not a coherent body of distinct political ideas.
If one is looking for an abstract principle to follow on questions of immigration, liberalism cannot provide it.
For example, World War I marked the end of the nineteenth-century’s laissez-faire liberalism and ushered in a period of state-centered economic systems.
It is not surprising that the triumph of the PC seemed to be accompanied by a revival of the nineteenth-century vision of classical liberalism and individualism.
For all the apparent freshness of Medvedev’s recent pronouncements, including his now famous article “Go Russia!” – which sounded a clarion call for modernization and liberalism – he is borrowing massively from Putin’s vocabulary of 2000.
Calls for liberalism coexist with statist dogma, and bloviating populism trumps regard for complexity and hard choices.
His values, ideas, purposes--everything he espouses--constitute an assault on all that liberalism stands for.
But then Bellamy stretches liberalism too far, saying that a similar "peace" can be achieved in debates over even bitterly divisive subjects like abortion.
A modus vivendi is all that can realistically be achieved, suggests John Gray in his the Two Faces of Liberalism .
These three writers implicitly recognize that liberalism's weakness is revealed at those moments when even "thin" loyalty is impossible, when there is no chance for institutional compromise, and when a modus vivendi cannot be sustained.
Liberalism, of course, has faced enemies before--Schmitt among them, for, as Hitler's "Crown Jurist," he was among those who posed as irreconcilable foes of Weimar liberalism.
Liberalism's enemies are real enough.
Liberalism at war?
That may be the only option, if liberalism itself is to survive.
In short, the Chinese model reflects a combination of pragmatism, liberalism, and market competition, but with a strong dose of state intervention.
After Solidarity: Democracy or Liberalism?
By leaving the rhetoric of "community" only to the extremes of right and left, by abandoning it to people with nothing positive to say, people who loath all aspects of liberal individualism, both liberalism and democracy are placed at risk.
This makes it difficult for right-wing parties to combine their usual rhetoric of economic liberalism with nationalism; or for left-wing parties to reconcile their traditional preferences of internationalism and statism.
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