>Real liberals should be deeply insulted by the idea that Blair or
>Clinton might claim the mantle of liberalism, which, actually, they
>don't. They flee from it. They call themselves "moderates" ot
>"centrists" or something like that, while upholding policies to the
>right of those promoted by the conservatives of a generation ago.
They're Manchester liberals. In the U.S., that's taken over from the old New Deal kind.
>Now, I don't know Zizek's work beyond a review of Getty's book on
>Stalin in NLR, but I haven't heard anything that would lead me to
>think that he supports the characteristic Third Way
>positions--workfare, privatization, repressive criminal policies,
>enhanced police power, weakened labor unions, free trade for
>capital, subservience to the fiscal markets, balanced budgersm lower
>taxes, all glossed with a symbolic brushing of women's rights and a
>nod towards gays and lesbians.
He absolutely doesn't, and it's absurd to say he does. Propagandizing makes people say strange things.
Doug