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155422
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Brexit and support for anti-establishment insurgencies suggest that British politics is moving away from the old left–right opposition towards a new divide between the defenders and detractors of progressive liberalism. As this article suggests, progressive liberalism differs significantly from both classical and new liberalism. It fuses free-market economics with social egalitarianism and identity politics. Both the hard left and the radical right reject this combination and want to undo a number of liberal achievements.
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152548
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This special edition reflects on the contemporary relevance of the insights and concerns of David Marquand's book The Progressive Dilemma. In this Introduction, the editors set the scene for these reflections. They consider the structural changes that have occurred in politics since the 1990s: the impact of globalisation, the erosion of class identities, the rise of ‘identity politics’ and the continued fragmentation of the party system. There has been no reconciliation between the parties of the centre-left, nor any re-examination of the ‘liberal tradition’ and the potential for a new synthesis with revisionist social democracy. On the one hand, Corbynism is a radicalised metropolitan species of liberalism, while on the other there are plenty in Labour who stress the need for the party to re-engage with the traditional, socially conservative values of the working class in a new ‘postliberal’ appeal. Yet the authors argue that those who broadly identify with progressive causes in British politics—animated by the various overlapping strands of social liberalism, social democracy and liberal socialism—have still to work out how to address the historic failings that Marquand so eloquently exposed, to create a new and inspiring intellectual vision that unites and energises the left and centre-left.
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ID:
192482
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The article deals with the transformation of the Western liberal democratic model
and international relations amid Cold War II. Sources of liberal authoritarianism
are identified, and the West’s ongoing authoritarian turn is conceptualized in
terms of postliberalism. The latter is scrutinized through the political West’s
efforts to protect liberal democracy and its values, and to establish global
Gemeinschaft of liberal democracies through containment, deterrence, and
encirclement. This process is seen as being interconnected with the intensifying
conflict between liberal and sovereign internationalism over the international
system. Whereas the political West asserts the rules-based order, the internally
heterogeneous Global Majority seeks to establish a polycentric model based
on the centrality of the UN Charter and the principles of peaceful coexistence.
Hegemonism is compared with the Global Majority’s emancipatory aspirations
that have led to the large-scale confrontation with the political West since 2022.
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