Liberalism: Anglo-American Fallacy

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	Liberalism: Anglo-American Fallacy

baydawg

1-28-2009 10:20 AM

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modernity, democracy, liberalism, liberal modernity, marketplace of ideas

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too full of ourselves too often; refreshing perspective

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e05f59f-e247-49f6-b8f2-002ed9dac40b/C59C8603-9D20-4AFB-9618-D60F93260A88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html" href="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html" style="font-size: 11px;">amicablecollisions.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html"><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/11/1">Timothy Garton Ash</A>:<BR /><BLOCKQUOTE><BR />For close to 500 years, modernity has come from the west.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html"> In 20th-century Europe, liberal democracy faced two powerful versions of modernity that were western but illiberal: fascism and communism. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html">It's also not the smartest idea to identify this vision of a concert of democracies too emphatically with the west</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html"> the future of freedom now depends on the possibility of new versions of modernity evolving - whether in India, China or the Muslim world, which are distinctly non-western yet also recognisably liberal, in the core sense of cherishing individual freedom.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html"><BR />Part of waging a campaign of ideas is fostering and embracing the emergence of non-Western versions of liberal modernity and creating an international order that any country can join. We need to be clear about what we are for (liberal modernity)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2009/01/need-for-liberal-international-order.html"> Real success in the campaign of ideas will come when the key champions of liberal modernity are countries like India, Brazil, and even Iraq.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C59C8603-9D20-4AFB-9618-D60F93260A88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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