I agree with Greg that List and his infant industry protectionism (originally derived from Alexander Hamilton) is not "Third Way" in any of the senses that term has been used in this century.
A more serious pre-Bernstein strand that led directly into several of the major twentieth century variants was the Social Christian strand coming out of the Catholic Church that fed corporatism in both its fascist and social democratic variants. The originator of this line of thought in the mid-nineteenth century was the Frenchman, Frederic Ozanam, a member of the revolutionary Paris parliament of 1848, who was beatified by the Pope in Paris a year ago in August. Barkley Rosser On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:41:23 -0400 Greg Nowell <GN842 at CNSVAX.Albany.Edu> wrote:
> His ideas are worth reading, and I've been assigning
> them for years. But it would be nonsense to call them
> a "third way." Protectionism in all its ramifications
> is an embedded part of capitalism, the struggle of
> bourgeois vs bourgeois. What is unique about List is
> that his appreciation of the reasons for protectionism
> go far beyond the cartoon infant industry argument with
> which he is summarized and dismissed, when he is
> discussed at all. Any time you have a leading sector
> in capitalist development dilatory political tactics
> will emerge from the representatives of the old way
> (those threatened with replacement) and those who want
> to catch up with the leading edge but, because they are
> farther behind, need some kind of compensation (access
> to subsidized capital, tax reductions, entry controlled
> markets) to put them on a better footing with the
> leading edge firm(s).
>
> --
> Gregory P. Nowell
> Associate Professor
> Department of Political Science, Milne 100
> State University of New York
> 135 Western Ave.
> Albany, New York 12222
>
> Fax 518-442-5298
>
>
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu