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It discredits liberalism by employing liberal rhetoric and appointing liberal leaders to administer its authoritarian rule, leaving political opposition to leftist parties and nationalists.
While some of the very rich complain, as Warren Buffett did recently, that they do not pay enough taxes, the enlightened generosity of these happy few – who want to save capitalism and liberalism – is unlikely to be emulated by the new rich in the emerging countries, much less by the rich elsewhere.
So he would have been flabbergasted to see his prophecy realized, not by communism, but by the globalization of Anglo-American economic liberalism.
And the emotions in this case betray an element of Schadenfreude: look at how even the Dutch, always boasting of their superior tolerance and liberalism, have responded like cowards when their principles are truly tested.
Finally, the Third Way is defined by progressive liberalism.
Asked whether “social liberalism” is a “force for good” or a “force for ill,” 87% of “Remain” voters said it was a force for good, while 53% of Leave voters called liberalism a “force for ill.”
“Progressive” social liberalism and “conservative” free-market economics seemed to be two sides of the same coin.
But when free-market economic liberalism failed in the 2008 crisis, political challenges to social liberalism could no longer be deflected by invoking impersonal economic laws.
But if social change can no longer be legitimized as the necessary condition for economic progress, it seems unlikely that democracies will now vote to reinstate the social conditions before the ascendancy of economic liberalism and globalization.
Liberalism has not been abandoned, but a dash of populism and Hungarian patriotism has been added to the brew: "While we wish to feel at home in NATO and the EU," Orban declared at a rapturous FIDESZ congress on June 6the, "we do not wish our good feelings about our home here to fade".
Indeed, its three components – liberalism, universality, and the preservation of order itself – are being challenged as never before in its 70-year history.
Liberalism is in retreat.
Call this system Russian democracy without liberalism.
A strong current of liberalism appeared in the late nineteenth century in Ottoman Syria in response to the religious despotism of Sultan Abdulhamid.
The outcome was an endorsement of the lessons of economic liberalism.
After all, Putinism is characterized less by what it endorses than by what it opposes – the West and Western-style democracy, liberalism, communism, and individualism.
According to Mussolini’s 1932 essay La dottrina del fascismo (The Doctrine of Fascism), written with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, fascism opposes democracy, socialism, liberalism, and individualism (in addition to Bolshevism, parliamentarianism, Freemasonry, pacifism, and egalitarianism).
Political scientist John Ruggie made the case in 1982 that post-World War II multilateralism and free trade was the result of a “compromise of embedded liberalism.”
By carrying the banner of liberalism, good governance, and the rule of law internationally, the EU can reverse the centrifugal forces at home that have intensified during the crisis, thereby strengthening its capacity to respond to today’s challenges and securing its position in tomorrow’s world.
Individualism is of course a part of liberalism and Polish society is now a very liberal one, but some community feelings are necessary for free individuals to exist.
Over time, as economic liberalism has crowded out longstanding principles of equality and social solidarity, vast wealth disparities have emerged, corrupting many Western countries’ politics.
After all, liberalism in Eastern Europe is a Western import.
Notwithstanding the Trump and Brexit phenomena, the US and the UK have deeply embedded cultures of political and social liberalism.
At a time of much hand-wringing over the decline of liberalism, the future of social democracy, the rise of nationalism, and the backlash against globalization, Macron’s unapologetically internationalist stance is notable.
He persuaded voters with his promise of a Scandinavian-style combination of economic liberalism and a flexible welfare state.
It has replaced Israel’s early pioneering ethos with the temptations of modernity, liberalism, and “normalcy.”
Democracy is good, and so are liberalism and tolerance.
More democracy can actually mean less liberalism and more intolerance.
How to stop this from killing liberalism is the most important question facing people in the Middle East.
Add to this the congenital French mistrust of liberalism – indeed, French is one of the rare languages in which the word “liberalism” has a pejorative connotation – joined to an equally deep-rooted perception of the state (again, on both the right and the left) as the defender of the general interest par excellence.
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