The left’s ‘third way’ is ideological capitulation, not new initiative
Evidence
In power in many European countries - the kft is still thoroughly defeated ideologically. This is why, despite all the hype about the ‘third way’, it is unable to take the inteUecrual initiative. Instead of trying to build a new hegemony. it has capitulated to the neo-liberal one. Hence the ‘Thatcherism with a human face’ which is the ttademark of New Labour. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 523
Categorization
- XREF: Naming ‘Thatcherism with a human face’ resonates with the reader’s interest in whether erasing the adversary (the third way consensualism) truly dissolves the enemy or merely relocates it. — connects to: The third way is a politics without adversary that pretends all interests reconciles — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 70; Giddens grounded third-way politics on reflexivity replacing left-right class antagonism — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 486; The third way’s real content is bureaucracy, not ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 488 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Social democratic parties abandoned class politics for a pro-market Third Way
#expands(0.88) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 117 - The third way’s real content is bureaucracy, not ideology
#responds-to(0.84) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 488 - The left’s embrace of pluralism wrongly led it to abandon hegemonic alternatives
#corroborates(0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 501